OpenBao Namespaces

We are excited to introduce Namespaces to the OpenBao Secret Manager – a powerful feature designed to bring robust multi-tenancy and fine-grained isolation to your secrets management workflows. Namespaces in OpenBao are logical partitions within a single OpenBao instance, functioning as isolated environments where teams, organizations, or applications can operate independently. Each namespace acts like a mini-OpenBao, with its own policies, authentication methods, secret engines, tokens, and identity groups. This architecture enables organizations to implement a true OpenBao-as-a-Service model, empowering internal customers to self-manage their environments securely and efficiently. Strong isolation between teams, business units, or tenants becomes critical as organizations scale, especially when handling sensitive data. Namespaces enable secure multi-tenancy. Each tenant (e.g., team, organisation, or application) operates within its namespace, isolated from others. Permissions are ... Read full article.