Since you seem to know a lot about this topic, can you outline what the main advantages are of using vault over standard kubernetes secrets? what are the main benefits or drawbacks I would see from using it?
The primary differentiators are likely the fact that encryption of those secrets is still fairly new for k8s, and vault has a much more rich way to define access to the secrets. Vault makes sense when it is more than just k8s you need to interact with