Secrets & keys

OpenBao

The open-source fork of Vault.

open source self-hostable OpenBao project · US

Community fork under the Linux Foundation after the licence change.

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How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	OpenBao project (US), part of Linux Foundation
Licence	MPL-2.0
Self-hosting footprint	256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	HashiCorp Vault
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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