Akeyless Secrets Management

Akeyless Secrets Management is the core capability of the Akeyless platform, designed to store, control and deliver secrets such as API keys, database passwords, tokens and cloud credentials to applications and people without exposing them in code or configuration files.

Secrets are organized in a hierarchical structure with role-based access policies and authenticated through methods such as Kubernetes service accounts, AWS IAM, Azure AD, GCP, OIDC, SAML and certificates. Beyond static secrets, Akeyless can generate dynamic credentials that exist only for the duration of a job and automatically rotate long-lived passwords for databases, cloud accounts and servers. Delivery happens through a CLI, REST API, SDKs, a Kubernetes injector and external secrets operator, and native plugins for CI/CD tools. All access is logged for audit, and secrets can be synchronized with cloud-native secret stores.

Developers and platform teams use Akeyless Secrets Management to remove hardcoded credentials, reduce secret sprawl across teams and clouds, and meet audit requirements for credential control.