Spring Boot & Infisical - Managing your sensitive configuration

Hello everyone! In this article, I’ll show you how to employ Infisical in your Spring Boot application.

But last year, HashiCorp changed Terraform’s license to non-open source. This could also happen to Vault, or not. The second reason why I chose Infisical for this article is because IBM acquired Terraform this year.

Introduction

Like the HashiCorp Vault, Infisical is a secret management platform. Let’s start by starting up the Infisical instance locally with the docker-compose file provided by the documentation. First, we need to download it with the following command.

curl -o docker-compose.prod.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Infisical/infisical/main/docker-compose.prod.yml

The second step is to get the .env file. We can do it by command provided by the documentation.

curl -o .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Infisical/infisical/main/.env.example

Now we can start an instance of Infisical.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up

After that, you should see this screen at localhost:8080

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