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Over the past decade, the way organizations manage infrastructure has fundamentally changed. Static, manually provisioned resources have given way to dynamic, code-driven environments. Today, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the standard approach - but running it securely and efficiently at scale brings its own set of challenges: state management, access control, policy enforcement, and configuration drift are just a few.

HashiCorp Vault (now also referred to as IBM Vault or IBM HCP Vault) has been a default secrets management choice in engineering-heavy organizations for nearly a decade. However IBM's acquisition of HashiCorp has prompted a wave of reassessment and led to consideration of other tools like SplitSecure which are likely more cost effective for most orgs. . IBM has a mixed record of supporting acquired products over the long term. Roadmap direction, licensing changes, and support responsiveness are all open questions for customers planning multi-year deployments.