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Vault on Kubernetes: Part 2 - Multiple k8s, templates and external IPs
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Vault on Kubernetes: Part 2 - Multiple k8s, templates and external IPs

Let’s keep going with what we started last week.  This week I’ll show how to format secrets for various database engines, expose Vault with a public IP and load balancer and

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
19 min read
Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started
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Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started

Hashi Vault has long been a leader in secret management and has had a Kubernetes Helm Chart now for a year.  I've been meaning to get back to Vault for some time and

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
12 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 7
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 7

Many Enterprise features will make their way to OSS. However, as solid as the OSS version is, there are features as Enterprises scale that make the Enterprise offering make more sense

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
1 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 6
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 6

API AccessWe can use REST APIs to interact with Vault as well.  We can use these APIS to  init, unseal and even create and update roles.# init with curl $ curl --request POST --data

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
2 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 5
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 5

So far our basic containerized Vault has worked for dev, but it’s not re-deployable in its current fashion.  We would never use in-memory storage for keys (wanting instead to persist them).We

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
3 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 4
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 4

Authentication and PoliciesBy default, Vault uses token authentication.  One can use vault create token to create a new token that inherits the privileges of the creating user.The token can be revoked by

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
2 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 3
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 3

One can add other secrets engines. Secret engines are Vault’s extensibility model that allows a way to take data, do an action and return a result.  For instance, if one would like

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
3 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 2
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 2

With Part 1, we showed how to launch a Vault instance locally with a focus on using docker and containers.  Now that you have vault installed, let's check out what it can do.

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
2 min read
A Vault Tutorial. Part 1
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A Vault Tutorial. Part 1

While Vault can be installed to a variety of platforms (www.vaultproject.io/downloads.html), one very straight forward approach that will work for later cloud migration is to use the published docker

  • Isaac Johnson
    Isaac Johnson
3 min read
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