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Welcome to the KES wiki! Here, you can find information about MinIO's KES project - including architecture and configuration guides, best practices and general documentation.

Why KES

KES is a stateless and distributed key-management system for high-performance applications. We built KES as the bridge between modern applications - running as containers on Kubernetes - and centralized KMS solutions. Therefore, KES has been designed to be simple, scalable and secure by default. It has just a few knobs to tweak instead of a complex configuration and does not require a deep understanding of secure key-management or cryptography.

If you're new to KES you may want to checkout our Get Started Guide or read more about how KES works at our Concepts page.

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Guides

• Hashicorp Vault
• AWS SecretsManager
• Filesystem

API Documentation

• Server API
• Go SDK API

Miscellaneous

• MinIO Object Storage
• TLS Proxies