What is one of the primary purposes of the Vault interface?

The primary purpose of the Vault interface is to provide a unified approach to secret management. HashiCorp Vault is designed to manage sensitive data, such as secrets, tokens, passwords, and certificates reliably and securely. This interface allows users to interact with the Vault in a consistent manner, enabling them to store, retrieve, and manage secrets across various systems and applications efficiently. By having a single point for secret management, Vault enhances security practices, promotes best practices in data management, and reduces the complexity involved in handling sensitive information.

In contrast, public access to all secrets would undermine the security model that Vault is built on; simplified data entry does not capture the broader scope of secret management, and creating visual reports is not a core function of Vault, which focuses more on secure storage and access rather than reporting capabilities.