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Vault Policies and Authorization

Master Vault policy creation, path-based access controls, built-in policies, and fine-grained authorization for secure secrets management.

75 minutes
security/vault
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Lab Overview

Learn comprehensive Vault policy management including built-in policies, custom policy creation, path patterns, and advanced authorization controls for securing access to secrets and operations.

You'll learn to:

  • Understand Vault's built-in policies (default, root)
  • Create and manage custom policies with HCL syntax
  • Implement path-based access controls and patterns
  • Use wildcard and templated policy paths effectively
  • Apply fine-grained capabilities and constraints
  • Test and validate policy effectiveness

Prerequisites

Vault CLI Basics Lab

Production Vault Server Setup Lab

Vault Authentication Methods Lab

Technologies Covered

vaultpoliciesauthorizationaccess-controlhclpath-patternssecurity

Part of a Course

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

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