What is cerberus-go-client?

fieldju/cerberus-go-client — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2022-06-01

Audience · developerComplexity · 2/5DormantSetup · moderate

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((repo))
    What it does
      Fetches secrets
      Talks to Cerberus vault
      Runtime secret retrieval
    Auth methods
      Username and password
      AWS STS auth
      Existing token
    Tech stack
      Go language
      AWS credentials
    Use cases
      Backend service startup
      Database credentials
      API token retrieval
    Audience
      Nike engineers
      Cerberus users
      Go developers

mindmap root((repo)) What it does Fetches secrets Talks to Cerberus vault Runtime secret retrieval Auth methods Username and password AWS STS auth Existing token Tech stack Go language AWS credentials Use cases Backend service startup Database credentials API token retrieval Audience Nike engineers Cerberus users Go developers

What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Fetch database credentials securely at application startup instead of hardcoding them.

USE CASE 2

Retrieve API tokens or other secrets on demand from Cerberus.

USE CASE 3

Create and manage safe deposit boxes and secrets programmatically from Go code.

What is it built with?

GoAWS STS

How does it compare?

	fieldju/cerberus-go-client	0verflowme/alarm-clock	0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch
Stars	—	—	0
Language	—	CSS	Python
Last pushed	2022-06-01	2022-10-03	—
Maintenance	Dormant	Dormant	—
Setup difficulty	moderate	easy	moderate
Complexity	2/5	2/5	4/5
Audience	developer	vibe coder	developer

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires access to a running Cerberus instance and valid authentication credentials.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Write a Go program using cerberus-go-client to authenticate with username and password and fetch a secret from a safe deposit box.

Prompt 2

Show me how to use AWS STS authentication with cerberus-go-client in a Go service running on AWS.

Prompt 3

Help me integrate cerberus-go-client into my Go backend so it fetches database credentials on startup instead of reading them from a config file.

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