Hashicorp Vault Training

What Hashicorp Vault  does? 

It is the tool that Manage Secrets and Protect Sensitive Data  which is the need of the hour | Secure dynamic infrastructure across clouds and environments

The main purpose of the Hashicorp Vault is that to Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

Agenda 

• Getting Started

• Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Get started here.

• Install Vault

• The first step to using Vault is to get it installed.

• Starting the Server

• After installing Vault, the next step is to start the server.

• Your First Secret

• With the Vault server running, let's read and write our first secret.

• Secrets Engines

• Secrets engines create, read, update, and delete secrets | Dynamic Secrets

• On this page we introduce dynamic secrets by showing you how to create AWS access keys with Vault.

• Built-in Help

• Vault has a built-in help system to learn about the available paths in Vault and how to use them.

• Authentication

• Users can authenticate to Vault using multiple methods.

• Policies

• Policies in Vault control what a user can access.

• Deploy Vault

• Learn how to deploy Vault, including configuring, starting, initializing, and unsealing it.

• Using the HTTP APIs with Authentication

• HTTP APIs can control authentication and access to secrets.

• Web UI

• Vault comes with support for a user-friendly and functional web UI out of the box. In this guide we will explore the Vault UI.

• Next Steps

• Resources and further tracks now that you're confident using Vault.