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⚿Infisical

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Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management.

⭐ Very popular: 29k stars, gaining about 161 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2022 4 years old
delivery product
language TypeScript
license Other

momentum

total stars 29k
stars added last week +161
HN peak 284 pts 3y ago
weekly downloads 0 /wk · npm
used by 15 repos & packages
commits / week 130 cooling · -63% vs prior mo
issues closed 65% ~11d to close, median
contributors 274 (+3 in 15d)
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Infisical (YC W23)
bus factor 6 distributed
top-author share 12% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 608/mo (+3%/mo) · + 6k total since PR#19

why it's a big deal

  • Merges secrets, PKI, and SSH management into one open platform.
  • Eliminates vendor dependency for sensitive infrastructure credentials.
  • Built for developers with SDKs, CLIs, and CI/CD connectors baked in.

under the hood

  • Open license; self-hostable via Docker or Helm.
  • Written in TypeScript and Go; ships with a modern React dashboard.
  • Integrates with GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP.

our take from PR#19, 2025-10-15

star history

PR#19 · 23k29k now Aug 2022Aug 2026
  1. PR#19 23k 2025-10-15
  2. now 29k + 6k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Deep in the understory, shipping hard, still flying under the radar.

+33 understory score output 100 · clout 67
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#19 2025-10-15 on the radar

    Open-source platform for secrets management, PKI, and SSH

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replaces

alternatives to HashiCorp Vault →
  • HashiCorp Vault

    HashiCorp

    closed source
  • AWS Secrets Manager

    AWS

    closed source
  • Doppler
    closed source

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