macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install openbaolocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install openbaoMacPorts ports tree · security/openbao/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install openbao with Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper
Provides a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data. Version 2.5.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add openbaoAlpine Linux edge package indexes · openbao · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install openbaoFedora Rawhide package metadata · openbao · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#openbaonixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/op/openbao/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S openbaoArch Linux sync databases · openbao · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install openbaoopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · openbao · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Provides a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data
Project links
Commands and aliases
No executable aliases were found in the local package database.
history
Project history and usage
OpenBao is an open source, community-governed fork of HashiCorp Vault for managing secrets, certificates, keys, identity-based access, leasing, dynamic credentials, and encryption services.
Project history
OpenBao began after HashiCorp's Vault ecosystem split over licensing. The project forked from the MPL-licensed Vault 1.14.x line and set its mission around preserving an OSI-approved open source secrets-management system under open governance.
The project produced its initial general-availability release as OpenBao v2.0.0, with release notes listing July 16, 2024 as the 2.0.0 release date and the project blog announcing general availability on July 25, 2024. That first GA release emphasized stabilizing the fork, reducing binary size, and giving the community room to make governance and ecosystem decisions.
OpenBao later moved from LF Edge into the Open Source Security Foundation. The OpenBao blog announced OpenSSF sandbox acceptance on June 17, 2025, describing the move as a better alignment with security professionals and open source maintainers.
Adoption history
The project's homepage lists supporters including EdgeX Foundry Development, Open Horizon Development, IOTech Systems, Viaccess-Orca, WALLIX, GitLab, SAP, NeoNephos, Adfinis, and Liquid Reply. That roster reflects why the fork mattered: organizations already using Vault-like workflows wanted a governed open source continuation point.
OpenBao's migration guide explicitly targets in-place migration from Vault Community Edition clusters and states that OpenBao's API should be compatible with Vault enough that existing clients should not register a difference. That compatibility promise shaped adoption by making OpenBao a packaging and operations substitution rather than a ground-up secrets-manager migration.
How it is used
Operators run the `bao` server and CLI to store key/value secrets, issue dynamic credentials for systems such as Kubernetes and SQL databases, manage PKI/certificates, lease and revoke secrets, and expose encryption-as-a-service behind authentication and authorization policies.
Developers integrate OpenBao through the HTTP API, the Go API module, existing Vault-compatible client patterns, and package-manager deployments. Its documentation describes use through UI, CLI, and API, but release notes for 2.0.x also warned that early OpenBao 2.0 releases did not include the built-in Web UI, making CLI and API operation central for the initial GA line.
Why package nerds care
OpenBao is significant because it turned a license-change event into a distro-visible package. Package maintainers got a new upstream with MPL-2.0 licensing, OpenSSF governance, native packages for common Linux distributions, and a binary named `bao` that deliberately avoids colliding with `vault` while keeping familiar operational behavior.
It also shows the practical side of forks: compatibility, migration guides, release cadence, CVE process, plugin policy, and package distribution matter at least as much as the fork announcement. For security-sensitive packages, governance and release process are part of the artifact.
Timeline
- 2023-06-21: HashiCorp announced Vault 1.14.0, part of the MPL-licensed branch OpenBao later targeted.
- 2024-03-29: OpenBao published its 2.0.0 alpha release.
- 2024-07-16: OpenBao v2.0.0 GA release date in the project release notes.
- 2024-07-25: The OpenBao blog announced v2.0.0 as the initial GA release.
- 2025-06-17: OpenBao announced acceptance as an OpenSSF sandbox project.
Related projects
- OpenBao is historically tied to HashiCorp Vault and operationally tied to Vault-compatible clients, auth methods, secret engines, and migration workflows. Its governance home links it to OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation, while infrastructure users often compare it with OpenTofu because both emerged as open source continuity projects after HashiCorp license changes.
Sources
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-1-14-0-1-13-4-1-12-8-and-1-11-12-released/55265
- https://openbao.org/
- https://openbao.org/blog/openbao-joins-the-openssf/
- https://openbao.org/blog/release-v2-0-0/
- https://openbao.org/community/release-notes/2-0-0/
- https://openbao.org/docs/guides/migration/
- https://openssf.org/projects/openbao/
security posture
Risk level: orange
formula declares a Homebrew service.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- formula declares a Homebrew service
Signals
- metadata:service
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Formula metadata declares a service or daemon block.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.bao
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
~/.vault-token
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| No executable data was present. | |||
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.5.5
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/openbao/openbaonone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:openbao |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.5.5 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openbao |
| Homepage | https://openbao.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/openbao/openbao |
| Upstream docs | https://openbao.org/docs |
| License | MPL-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://github.com/openbao/openbao.git |
| Last updated | 2026-06-22T14:05:41-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Build dependencies | go, node@22, yarn |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | openbao |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Conflicts With |
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| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
openbao
nix profile install nixpkgs#openbao- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
apk95%
openbao 2.5.4-r0
solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys
sudo apk add openbao- License: MPL-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
apk95%
openbao-openrc 2.5.4-r0
solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys (OpenRC init scripts)
sudo apk add openbao-openrc- License: MPL-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
dnf95%
openbao 2.5.4-1.fc45
A tool for securely accessing secrets
sudo dnf install openbao- License: MPL-2.0 AND (BSD-3-Clause OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR CC0-1.0) AND (MPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0) AND 0BSD AND AFL-2.0 AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 5 dependencies
- 5 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
dnf95%
openbao-vault-compat 2.5.4-1.fc45
Vault-compatible command and service
sudo dnf install openbao-vault-compat- License: MPL-2.0 AND (BSD-3-Clause OR MIT) AND (MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND (MIT OR CC0-1.0) AND (MPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0) AND 0BSD AND AFL-2.0 AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
pacman95%
openbao 2.5.4-1
solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data
sudo pacman -S openbao- License: MPL-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- 10 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao 2.5.4-1.1
Manage, store, and distribute sensitive data
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-agent 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao agent
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-agent- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: openbao
- 4 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-cassandra-database-plugin 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao database plugin for Cassandra
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-cassandra-database-plugin- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-influxdb-database-plugin 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao database plugin for InfluxDB
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-influxdb-database-plugin- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-mysql-database-plugin 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao database plugin for MySQL
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-mysql-database-plugin- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-mysql-legacy-database-plugin 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao database plugin for MySQL Legacy
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-mysql-legacy-database-plugin- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-postgresql-database-plugin 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao database plugin for PostgreSQL
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-postgresql-database-plugin- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: openbao
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
zypper95%
openbao-server 2.5.4-1.1
OpenBao server
https://github.com/openbao/openbao
sudo zypper install openbao-server- License: MPL-2.0
- Category: Productivity/Security
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: openbao
- 4 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
MacPorts95%
openbao
sudo port install openbao- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Openbao
source trail
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