HashiCorp Vault Tutorial for Beginners
This is a condensed HashiCorp Vault Tutorial course for beginners. You will learn the basics of Vault by the end of this course.
This is a condensed HashiCorp Vault Tutorial course for beginners. You will learn the basics of Vault by the end of this course.
As a DevOps engineer, you know that managing secrets is critical to your job. And HashiCorp Vault is one of the best tools for the job. But what happens when you need to back up and restore your Vault data? In this post, we’ll show you how to use Raft snapshots to do just that. We’ll also show you how to store those snapshots in AWS S3 for added durability. So if you’re ready to learn how to keep your data safe, read on!
In our last blog post, Andrew at Money Leaves Bank decided to use Terraform to migrate their secrets hosted in AWS Secrets Manager to HashiCorp Vault. However, he got some push-back from the security team regarding secrets showing up in the Terraform state file. Money Leaves Bank hired you as a consultant to write a script to run the migration securely. You decide to use Python for the script, Docker to package it, and GitLab to automate the testing and packaging. Learn more in this blog post.
Andrew at Money Leaves Bank finally convinced Claire, his CIO, that HashiCorp Vault should be their secrets management solution as they are becoming a multi-cloud company. Now he is faced with the challenge of migrating their secrets hosted in AWS Secrets Manager to HashiCorp Vault. In this blog post, learn why Andrew decides to use Terraform for this task and how he implements the solution.
Learning how to use the Vault API is key to really understanding how Vault works
Learn how to automate certificate management for the HashiCorp Vault PKI secrets engine.
Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to manage certificates? In this post you will learn how to use HashiCorp Vault’s PKI secrets engine to do so.
Learn how to build a Kubernetes k3s cluster in vSphere with Terraform and Packer
Vault is a great tool to centralize and manage secrets. However, how do you get access to Vault in the first place to retrieve your secrets? Learn best practices of solving the secret zero problem here.
How would you like to learn some best practices of Infrastructure as Code? This post will teach you how to use Packer, Terraform, and Ansible to build a Jenkins node to be used for CI/CD pipelines.