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Secrets Engines Deep Dive

Master Vault's secrets engines including KV, AWS dynamic secrets, Transit encryption, and Cubbyhole response wrapping for comprehensive secrets management.

90 minutes
security/vault
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Lab Overview

Learn to work with multiple Vault secrets engines including Key-Value (v1 & v2), AWS dynamic secrets generation, Transit encryption-as-a-service, and Cubbyhole response wrapping using production Vault server with raft storage.

You'll learn to:

  • Master KV v1 and KV v2 secrets engines with CLI and API operations
  • Understand KV v2 advanced features like versioning, CAS, and metadata
  • Generate dynamic AWS credentials with proper IAM policies
  • Use Transit engine for encryption, decryption, and key rotation
  • Implement Cubbyhole secrets for token-scoped secret storage
  • Practice response wrapping for secure secret distribution

Prerequisites

Token Management Lab

Vault Policies and Authorization Lab

Production Vault Server Setup Lab

Technologies Covered

vaultsecrets-engineskvdynamic-secretsawstransitencryptioncubbyholeresponse-wrapping

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Vault 101: Secrets Management Fundamentals course

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