{"id":1995,"date":"2026-10-08T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/keyorix-open-source-on-premise-secrets-management\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:12:01","slug":"keyorix-open-source-on-premise-secrets-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/keyorix-open-source-on-premise-secrets-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyorix: Open-Source Secrets Management for Teams That Need On-Premises Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keyorix gives teams a free, open-source way to store database passwords, API keys, and tokens entirely on their own hardware.<\/strong> The tool ships as one binary, needs no internet connection in its core form, and targets organizations that cannot send credentials to a cloud service, including air-gapped environments and European enterprises working toward NIS2 and DORA.<\/p>\n<h2>What Keyorix is and who it is built for<\/h2>\n<p>A secrets manager is the locked store where applications fetch the credentials they need to run, so passwords and tokens stay out of config files and source code. Keyorix plays this role while staying under a team&#8217;s own roof. The product is developed by Keyorix SL and positioned for two groups: teams running air-gapped networks where no calls to outside services are allowed, and European companies that must line up with the EU&#8217;s cybersecurity and financial-resilience rules.<\/p>\n<h3>How it compares with similar tools<\/h3>\n<p>The company&#8217;s own comparison table places Keyorix alongside two options developers often weigh:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vault<\/strong>, which runs on premises but calls for a dedicated administrator to maintain it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doppler<\/strong>, which is simple to use but is a SaaS-only product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keyorix sits between those poles: self-hosted like Vault, but designed to be operated without a full-time specialist.<\/p>\n<h2>How developers hand secrets to an application<\/h2>\n<p>Two paths are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A command-line tool injects secrets as environment variables, so the application reads them as ordinary settings.<\/li>\n<li>SDKs are offered for Go, Python, and Node.js for direct integration in the developer&#8217;s language of choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For teams already running Vault, the existing secret store can be imported. A single Docker Compose command brings up the full stack, including the web interface, which makes local evaluation fast.<\/p>\n<h2>Access controls and day-to-day operations<\/h2>\n<p>Ship the controls a growing team needs around the core engine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Role-based access control and group permissions<\/li>\n<li>Secret versioning, so earlier values can be retrieved when needed<\/li>\n<li>Separate environments for development, staging, and production<\/li>\n<li>Service tokens for CI\/CD jobs<\/li>\n<li>Dashboard alerts when secrets are nearing their rotation deadline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A web dashboard is available for teams that prefer a graphical interface over the command line.<\/p>\n<h2>How secrets are protected on disk and on the wire<\/h2>\n<p>Every secret value is encrypted using AES-256-GCM. At startup, a passphrase is stretched into a key-encrypting key that lives only in memory, and that key then wraps the data key used to encrypt stored secrets. Storage defaults to SQLite for development and small teams, with PostgreSQL available for production deployments. Every access is logged with the user, the action, the timestamp, and the source address across two audit layers, giving security teams the trail they need for internal review and external audits.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to get it<\/h2>\n<p>Keyorix is available for free on GitHub at the Keyorix project repository. Because the code is open source, teams can audit the implementation, adapt it to internal standards, and run it without a vendor relationship.<\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<h3>What is Keyorix?<\/h3>\n<p>Keyorix is an open-source secrets manager that runs entirely on a company&#8217;s own servers, providing a locked store for database passwords, API keys, and tokens so they stay out of config files and source code.<\/p>\n<h3>Does Keyorix require an internet connection?<\/h3>\n<p>No. In its core form Keyorix ships as a single binary and needs no internet connection, which suits air-gapped networks.<\/p>\n<h3>Which EU regulations does Keyorix help teams address?<\/h3>\n<p>Keyorix targets European enterprises that need to align with NIS2, the EU&#8217;s cybersecurity directive, and DORA, the EU&#8217;s financial-resilience rules, by keeping credentials on premises rather than with a SaaS provider.<\/p>\n<h2>Related coverage<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/ai-agent-gateway-open-source-tool-keeps-credentials-out-of-agent-configs\/\">AI Agent Gateway: open-source tool keeps model keys and MCP credentials out of agent configs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is Keyorix?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Keyorix is an open-source secrets manager that runs entirely on a company's own servers, providing a locked store for database passwords, API keys, and tokens so they stay out of config files and source code.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Does Keyorix require an internet connection?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No. In its core form Keyorix ships as a single binary and needs no internet connection, which suits air-gapped networks.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Which EU regulations does Keyorix help teams address?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Keyorix targets European enterprises that need to align with NIS2, the EU's cybersecurity directive, and DORA, the EU's financial-resilience rules, by keeping credentials on premises rather than with a SaaS provider.\"}}]}]}<\/script><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:2.5em 0 1em;opacity:.35\" \/>\n<p style=\"font-size:.85em;opacity:.7\">This article summarizes reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2026\/10\/05\/keyorix-open-source-on-premise-secrets-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">helpnetsecurity.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- seo-pro:slop-fixed --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyorix is a free, open-source secrets manager that runs entirely on company servers, aimed at air-gapped networks and EU compliance with NIS2 and DORA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_title":"Keyorix: Open-Source On-Premises Secrets Manager","rank_math_description":"Keyorix is a free, open-source secrets manager that ships as one binary, needs no internet, and targets air-gapped and EU compliance teams using NIS2 and DORA.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"keyorix secrets manager","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_robots":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedsta.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}