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by syscomet 3351 days ago
blog-post author here: all of them written in Golang which use SSH.

Packer, Terraform, Vault, all of them.

Using a bastion host in your configurations doesn't help if you invoke the tooling on your laptop, since the connection to the bastion host is done with the SSH package, again with no host-key verification.

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And Vault is supposed to be a super secure root of trust. Hmm...
Damn, I was planning on using Vault eventually. This attitude towards security gives me pause about put all my secrets into it. Is there any alternatives?