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Vault Installation and Setup

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 18. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s): - Week 18: Secrets Management with HashiCorp Vault (slug: secrets-management-vault) 🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp. Learn HashiCorp Vault fundamentals by installing Vault, configuring authentication methods, enabling secret engines, and implementing access policies for secrets management.

45 minutes
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 18. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 18: Secrets Management with HashiCorp Vault (slug: secrets-management-vault)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

Learn HashiCorp Vault fundamentals by installing Vault, configuring authentication methods, enabling secret engines, and implementing access policies for secrets management.

What You'll Learn

Install HashiCorp Vault via Helm in dev mode in a Kubernetes cluster and understand the initialize/unseal lifecycle conceptually

Configure Kubernetes and userpass authentication methods and verify token issuance

Enable the KV v2 secrets engine and store and retrieve secrets using the Vault CLI

Write Vault policies with path-based capabilities and bind them to authentication roles

Technologies Covered

vaultsecrets-managementsecurityhashicorp

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