Learning HashiCorp Vault

Learn the basics of secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, a popular tool for protecting sensitive data.

Introduction

• Secrets management with Vault
• What you should know
• Setting up your environment

1. Introduction to Vault

• What is Vault?
• Vault cryptography
• Vault concepts and architecture

2. Getting Started with Vault

• Using the dev server
• Introduction to Vault secrets engines
• Working with Vault secrets engines
• Vault authentication
• Vault policies overview
• Adding policies to Vault

3. Running and Using Vault

• Running a Vault server
• Initializing and unsealing a Vault server
• Running the containers
• SSH secrets engine overview
• SSH secrets engine set up
• Database secrets engine overview
• Configuring the database secrets engine
• Policies and credentials with the database secrets engine

4. Implementing Vault

• Secure introduction overview
• Secure introduction approaches
• Integrating Jenkins with Vault
• Vault response wrapping

5. Using the Vault API

• Using Postman to demonstrate the Vault API

Conclusion

• Next steps with Vault