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OpenBao: Horizontally Scaling Secrets Management - Alexander Scheel, ControlPlane
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
OpenBao is an OpenSSF project and a fork of HashiCorp Vault. It is an open-source secrets manager with support for static and dynamic secrets including identities and certificates.

The OpenBao community recently landed support for horizontal scalability, formerly a Vault Enterprise exclusive feature, in partnership between multiple organizations in the community.

This session will outline the design and development process of the feature, showcase how horizontal scalability improves performance on Kubernetes, and highlight future improvements the community is considering to offer write scalability.
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Alex Scheel

Head of OpenBao Development, ControlPlane
Alex Scheel is the Head of OpenBao Development at ControlPlane and a member of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee. He has built a career on open source contributions, previously working at GitLab with OpenBao, at Keyfactor on Bouncy Castle, at HashiCorp on Vault, and at Canonical... Read More →
AScheel OSSNA2026 Horizontally Scaling OpenBao pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:10pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration

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