Clutch is great for the "chaos is a ladder" crowd. But their pricing model makes me want to break things (not in the fun way).
Who else is actually usable for JIT, break-glass, and not just vaulting? My shortlist for real GitOps/DevOps integration:
**The Usual Suspects (with caveats):**
* **HashiCorp Vault** - Obvious. But running it yourself is a part-time job. Cloud HCP is better, but then you're in their ecosystem. The OSS auth methods are still king for machines.
* **AWS Secrets Manager / GCP Secret Manager** - Fine if you live in one cloud. Zero-elevation JIT is clunky. Break-glass is an afterthought.
* **Teleport** - For SSH, K8s, and DB access, it's brilliant. For broader PAM (Windows, random services), less so.
**The "Enterprisey" Ones We're Forced to Evaluate:**
* **CyberArk** - If you need to satisfy an auditor from 2010. Integrating it with a pipeline feels like performing surgery with a hammer.
* **BeyondTrust** - Slightly less painful. Their PAM for DevOps story is improving.
What I want: something I can define access in code, not a GUI. Clutch gets this. Who else does?
```yaml
# Example of what I mean - Clutch-style policy as code (ideal)
access_rule:
resource: "prod-db-cluster"
jit_approval: "auto_if_pagerduty_primary"
max_duration: "2h"
audit_sink: "s3://audit-logs"
```
Seen anything that clean? Or are we stuck building wrappers around Vault's API forever?