Hey folks, I've been deep in the IDE/CLI integration side of things for a while, and my team is currently evaluating PAM solutions. Delinea Cloud Suite (formerly Thycotic) keeps coming up, but I'm finding a real shortage of gritty, day-to-day technical feedback from actual engineering teams using it in production.
Most reviews are high-level or from a purely infosec admin perspective. I'm curious about the developer and SRE experience. Specifically:
* **Secret Injection & IDE/CLI Workflow:** We're a heavy VS Code and JetBrains shop. How seamless is the actual experience for developers needing to pull secrets for local development or debugging? Are there plugins or extensions you've integrated, or is it mostly via their CLI tool? I'm picturing scenarios like:
```bash
# Example: Needing a database connection string locally
dcli secret get --name "prod-db-connection" --field "connectionString"
```
Is the CLI robust, or do you hit weird auth loops that break your flow?
* **Session Management & Bastion Hosts:** For SSH/RDP to critical servers, how's the performance and stability of their browser-based session launching? Any notable latency or clipboard issues when working through a proxy? We've had bad experiences with other web-based bastions lagging on keypresses.
* **API & Automation Friendliness:** We automate everything. How reliable and well-documented is the REST API for things like rotating secrets programmatically or checking access audits? Any quirks with rate limiting or pagination that bit you later?
* **The "Delinea Ecosystem" Fit:** We also use their PAM for on-prem service accounts. Does the Cloud Suite feel like a cohesive part of that, or is it clearly a different product bolted on? I'm wary of disjointed UIs and permission models.
I'd love to hear about your real-world hiccups and wins. Things like:
- Unexpected costs that popped up (API call volumes, per-secret charges?).
- How you handled onboarding a large dev team without killing productivity.
- Any clever integrations you've built (e.g., with your CI/CD, or even local `.env` file generation).
- Plain old bugs or missing features that caused a workaround.
Just trying to cut through the vendor specs and get the ground truth before we commit. Thanks in advance!
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