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Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault
Your pipelines hold database passwords in plain variables. Code shouldn’t carry the keys it uses — Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault holds the SSH keys, certificates, API keys and tokens your applications and pipelines use, as a SaaS they call at run time, and issues just-in-time database and cloud access through URLs that expire — no vault cluster for you to run.
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The Delinea platform family
This page covers Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault — the SaaS secrets vault for applications, databases, CI/CD tools and services. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- SaaS secrets vault for machines: applications, databases, CI/CD tools and services
- Maker
- Delinea Inc., San Francisco; owned by TPG, CEO Art Gilliland; formed 2021 from Thycotic and Centrify
- Status
- Listed in Delinea’s credential and secret management line beside Secret Server and Credential Manager
- Price
- Quote-only, like every Delinea product; free trial; the licence unit is not published
- Secrets
- SSH keys, certificates, API keys and tokens, held in one cloud-native SaaS store
- Access
- A command-line interface and a REST API, so pipelines and code fetch secrets on demand
- Dynamic
- Just-in-time credentials for databases and cloud platforms, via URLs that expire automatically
- Resilience
- Delinea states 99.999% availability, with hot-standby disaster recovery behind the service
- India
- No India hosting region; Delinea’s nearest geographies are Singapore (SEA) and the UAE
- In India via
- TechBag — trial scoping, residency sign-off, quote in INR with GST
Understand secrets management before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is a machine secrets vault?
A central store that applications and pipelines ask for credentials at run time, so no password has to live in code.
Passwords in code and CI variables vs Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Passwords in code and CI variables | Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Where secrets sit | Repos, CI variables, config files | One SaaS store, fetched at run time |
| How long access lasts | Until someone changes the password | Just-in-time, URLs expire on their own |
| How code gets a secret | Read from a file shipped with it | A CLI call or a REST API request |
| Who runs the vault | Nobody — there isn’t one | Delinea, as a SaaS with hot standby |
| What a leaked link is worth | Access until noticed and rotated | Little once its URL has expired |
| What it is NOT | — | Human PAM, self-hosted, or India-hosted |
The cheapest test is one build job: fetch its secrets through the DSV CLI, delete the CI variable, and see whether anything breaks.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Tenant
DSV is delivered only as Delinea’s cloud-native SaaS, so there is no vault cluster, storage backend or upgrade cycle for your team to run or patch.
Clients
Applications, scripts and CI/CD jobs call the REST API or the command-line tool at run time instead of reading a password baked into code or config.
Dynamic
For databases and cloud platforms DSV hands out just-in-time access through URLs that expire automatically, so nothing long-lived waits to be stolen.
Standby
Delinea runs the service with hot-standby disaster recovery and states 99.999% availability; your build and deploy jobs depend on that promise holding.
A Delinea-run SaaS tenant behind a CLI and REST API — secrets fetched at run time, dynamic access that expires on its own.
Six capabilities. Store, issue, operate.
Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault lets code and pipelines ask for credentials when they run, instead of carrying them.
Keys, certificates, tokens
SSH keys, certificates, API keys and tokens sit in one SaaS store rather than in repositories, CI variables or shared files.
Built for machine callers
Applications, databases, CI/CD tools and services are the users; people manage the vault, while code does the reading.
Credentials made per need
Just-in-time access to databases and cloud platforms is issued when a job asks, not left standing between runs.
Access URLs time out
The URLs DSV issues for dynamic access expire automatically, so a leaked link stops working without anyone revoking it.
Fits scripts and pipelines
A command-line tool for build scripts and a REST API for application code are the two documented ways to fetch a secret.
Five nines, by Delinea
Delinea states 99.999% availability with hot-standby disaster recovery, which matters when every deploy reads the vault.
Watch Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault in action
Delinea’s DSV demo from April 2023 and a November 2024 explainer on resilient secrets for disaster recovery. Both from Delinea’s official channel.
Devops Secrets Vault Demo
Delinea’s own walk-through of DSV: storing machine secrets and fetching them for applications and pipelines.
The Key to Disaster Recovery: Resilient Secrets
Delinea on resilient secrets, a capability its Platform Enterprise bundle lists — context on keeping secrets reachable in an outage, not a DSV demo.
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Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Secrets out of code, without running a vault
DSV is Delinea’s SaaS answer to credentials hard-coded in repositories and pipeline variables. Applications, databases, CI/CD tools and services fetch SSH keys, certificates, API keys and tokens at run time through a CLI or REST API, and Delinea operates the service, so there is no cluster to size, unseal or upgrade.
Short-lived access instead of standing passwords
For databases and cloud platforms, DSV issues just-in-time access through URLs that expire automatically. A job gets what it needs for as long as it runs, and a copied link goes stale on its own. That shrinks what an attacker can do with anything scraped from a build log or a container image.
The machine half of a Delinea estate
DSV sits in the same credential and secret management line as Secret Server, the privileged-account vault, so a team already running Delinea for administrators can put pipeline secrets with the same vendor. Gartner’s 2025 PAM Magic Quadrant put the company among its Leaders, a rating that covers Delinea overall rather than DSV.
Where it stops
It is SaaS-only, and Delinea’s hosting geographies (AU, CA, EU, SEA, UAE, UK, US) include no India region, so self-hosting in an Indian data centre is not an option. The price and licence unit are unpublished, the product page names no specific CI/CD tools or databases, and it holds no human sessions or recordings.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault rollout looks like
Find the hard-coded secrets
List the repositories, CI variables and config files that carry passwords, keys and tokens, and rank them by blast radius.
Clear residency first
Get written sign-off that a Delinea tenant in Singapore or the UAE is acceptable, since DSV has no India region or self-host.
Trial one pipeline
Start the free trial, move one build job to fetch its secrets through the CLI, and remove the old variable from CI.
Switch to dynamic access
Replace a standing database password with just-in-time access and check that every job tolerates expiring URLs.
Roll out and retire copies
Move the remaining services onto the REST API, delete the copies left in code, and agree the licence unit in writing.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our build agents used to carry a database password in an environment variable. Now each run asks DSV and the access lapses after.”
“We already ran Secret Server for admins, so putting API keys and certificates for services with the same vendor was an easy sell.”
“The CLI dropped into our deploy scripts in an afternoon. The REST API took longer because each service team owns its own code.”
“Our auditors wanted secrets held in India. DSV is SaaS only with no Indian region, so legal had to approve Singapore first.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the secrets management market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Secrets Management Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Quote-only with a free trial; licence unit unpublished.
Deployment Reach × Credential Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how many places a secrets tool can run and serve from, India included, vs how far it goes beyond storing values into dynamic and rotated credentials.
SaaS-only; dynamic access via expiring URLs.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault vs the secrets management field
Against CyberArk Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault and Akeyless — on delivery, what each holds, price, limits, dynamic secrets, governance, support, exit and India.
| Dimension | Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault | CyberArk Secrets Manager | HashiCorp Vault | AWS Secrets Manager | Azure Key Vault | Akeyless |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | SaaS vault for machines | Machine half of CyberArk | IBM-owned secrets engine | Secrets service in AWS | Azure keys and secrets | SaaS secrets platform |
| Deployment | SaaS only | SaaS or self-hosted | Self-host or HCP | AWS-managed, per Region | Azure-managed vaults | Pure or hybrid SaaS |
| What it holds | Keys, certs, API tokens | Pipelines and containers | Secrets, Transit, PKI | Values up to 64 KB | Secrets, keys, certs | Static, dynamic, rotated |
| Pricing model | Quote; unit unstated | Per workload, quoted | Hourly base + per client | Per secret + per call | Per operation | Free tier, then quote |
| Published entry price | Not published | Not published | Free Community Edition | $0.40/secret/month | $0.03 per 10K ops | Free for 5 clients |
| Included vs add-on | Its own product | Second purchase | Tiered by edition | Lambda and KMS extra | Rotation costs extra | Metered extras |
| Scale limits | No caps published | Not published | Follows your cluster | 500,000 per Region | 4,000 reads per 10 s | Quota by plan |
| Dynamic secrets and rotation | Dynamic, expiring URLs | Rotate and broker | Dynamic is its core | Managed or Lambda | Event-driven, DIY | Dynamic and rotated |
| Integrations | CLI and REST API | Cloud stores via Hub | Cloud IAM, K8s, OIDC | IAM and AWS services | Entra ID, managed IDs | Connectors to clouds |
| Governance and SSO | Not detailed | One identity platform | Policies and audit | IAM policies | Azure RBAC roles | 3-day audit on free |
| India storage region | No India region | Self-host in India | Self-host in India | Mumbai and Hyderabad | Indian Azure regions | Gateway in India |
| Support | No India office | Office in India | Paid tiers only | Paid AWS tier | Paid plan from $29 | Not published |
| Lock-in and exit | SaaS, no self-host exit | Native stores stay | Portable, heavy to run | Tied to AWS | Backups stay in Azure | Exit is a contract item |
| Best fit | Delinea PAM estates | CyberArk PAM estates | Platform-run multi-cloud | All-in on AWS | All-in on Azure | Managed, start free |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault if…
- ✓You already run Secret Server or other Delinea products and want machine secrets from the same vendor
- ✓You want short-lived database and cloud access issued per job, without operating a vault cluster
- ✓A SaaS tenant in Singapore or the UAE passes your residency review
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓Secrets must be stored in India — AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault have Indian regions, and Vault self-hosts
- ✓You want a price before a sales call — AWS, Azure and Akeyless’s free tier publish theirs
- ✓You need encryption-as-a-service or a full PKI beside secrets — HashiCorp Vault covers both
Do not expect…
- ✓A self-hosted DSV, or a hosting region inside India
- ✓Session recording or human privileged access — that is Secret Server’s job
- ✓A secrets-specific analyst placement; Delinea’s Gartner Leader rating is for PAM as a company
Delinea DevOps Secrets Vault is one of 29 privileged access management products TechBag carries. The Privileged Access Management guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What do hard-coded secrets cost you?
Drag the sliders (applications and pipelines that use secrets; engineer-hour cost). Estimates model engineering time spent changing hard-coded credentials, rebuilding after a rotation and chasing leaked keys, at an assumed 1.5 hours per application or pipeline a year, with 70% of it removed by fetching secrets from a vault at run time. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Quote only. Delinea publishes no price and no licence unit for DevOps Secrets Vault, and delinea.com has no pricing page; a free trial comes first. Delinea’s Platform Enterprise bundle lists advanced DevOps integration and resilient secrets, but bundles are priced on request too, so ask whether DSV is inside yours or licensed on its own. Delinea has no India entity or hosting region. TechBag counts your applications and pipelines first, then quotes in INR with GST.
DevOps Secrets Vault
Best for pipeline and app secrets as SaaS
- Quote-only; licence unit not published
- Free trial before any quote
- SaaS-only, no India hosting region
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Delinea Platform Enterprise
Best for estates buying Delinea broadly
- Lists advanced DevOps integration
- Lists resilient secrets
- Bundle priced on request
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Will compliance accept secrets stored in Delinea’s Singapore or UAE geography, given there is no India region?
Is SaaS-only acceptable, or must some secrets stay on infrastructure you run yourselves in India?
Which applications, databases, CI/CD tools and services will read secrets, and can each call a CLI or REST API?
Which databases and cloud platforms in your estate does DSV issue just-in-time access for? Get the list named.
Does the contract carry Delinea’s 99.999% figure as an SLA with credits, or only as marketing?
How do administrators sign in, which roles exist, and can audit logs be exported to your SIEM?
How would you export every secret in bulk if you later moved to another vault?
What is the licence unit — secrets, clients or API calls — and is DSV inside your Platform bundle or separate?
Questions buyers ask
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