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Vault Production Server Fundamentals

Learn to set up, initialize, and manage a production Vault server with proper configuration and audit logging.

45 minutes
security/vault
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Lab Overview

This lab teaches essential Vault server operations including production configuration, initialization, and audit logging.

You'll learn to:

  • Configure and start a production Vault server with Raft storage
  • Initialize Vault with proper unseal key management
  • Unseal and authenticate with the Vault server
  • Enable and monitor audit logging for security compliance
  • Verify server status and health checks

This foundation is crucial for all advanced Vault operations and integrations.

Prerequisites

Basic command line knowledge

Understanding of secrets management concepts

Technologies Covered

vaultvault-serverinitializationaudit-loggingraft-storage

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Vault 202: Advanced Vault Operations course

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