Uber
Security
19 min
Uber Had 150,000 Secrets Scattered Across 25 Vaults — So They Built One Platform to Rule Them
150,000 secrets. 25 separate vaults. Hundreds of teams managing their own credentials in their own ways, some in plain text in version control. At Uber's scale — 5,000 microservices, 5,000 databases, 500,000 analytical jobs per day — secrets sprawl is not a compliance problem. It is an incident waiting to happen. A team of ten engineers decided to fix it.
150,000 secrets managed
25 vaults → 6 managed vaults
5,000 microservices secured
+2
20,000 automated rotations/month
90% fewer secrets in pipelines