The motivation is in the project’s readme, down at the bottom.
The tl;dr is that this is for legacy software where you can make HTTP calls to retrieve a secret, but for some reason cannot use the AWS SDK. If you can use the SDK, you should use that instead of this proxy.
The tl;dr is that this is for legacy software where you can make HTTP calls to retrieve a secret, but for some reason cannot use the AWS SDK. If you can use the SDK, you should use that instead of this proxy.