What feature does Vault provide to interact with secrets?

Vault provides a unified interface to interact with secrets, which is designed to simplify and centralize the management of secrets across various systems and services. This feature allows users to access and manage sensitive information without needing to understand the underlying complexity of how different backends store or handle secrets. By offering a consistent API, Vault abstracts the differences in backend implementations, enabling developers and operators to interact with secrets seamlessly.

This approach reduces the overhead of dealing with various storage methods and security models by providing a single point of access for various secret operations such as creation, retrieval, and revocation. The unified interface ensures that security policies and access controls are applied consistently, enhancing the overall security posture of applications that rely on secrets for their operation.