Case Study: Atlassian achieves centralized cloud secrets management with HashiCorp Vault

How HashiCorp Vault Solves The Top 3 Cloud Security Challenges for Atlassian

Atlassian, the collaboration software company behind products like Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, and Trello, needed a scalable, cloud-ready way to manage secrets as it grew from a small team to more than 1,700 employees across multiple offices, data centers, and cloud regions. Its developers were using a mix of ad hoc and homegrown approaches, creating secret sprawl, inconsistent policies, and difficult recovery procedures for keys, certificates, and access credentials.

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise was implemented as Atlassian’s centralized secrets platform, using features such as secure storage, dynamic secrets, transit encryption, fine-grained access controls, auditing, HSM integration, and multi-region replication. HashiCorp Vault enabled Atlassian to support both on-prem and cloud services, rotate and revoke credentials consistently, and mirror secrets across regions for disaster recovery and high availability, reducing snowflake management and giving development teams a single enterprise-wide solution.

Atlassian

Derek Chamorro

Virtualization Architect