Hashicorp Vault

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Vault (2015) provides secrets management, identity-based access, encrypting application data and auditing of secrets for applications, systems, and users.

MacOS installation

brew install vault

 To have launchd start vault now and restart at login:
  brew services start vault
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  vault server -dev

Commands

• vault -version
• vault kv put
• vault kv get

Starting vault:

 vault server -dev
 .../... 
export VAULT_DEV_ROOT_TOKEN_ID="s.TVr0O4kUldB9uPKOkq78XJPT"
export VAULT_ADDR='http://127.0.0.1:8200'
vault status
Key             Value
---             -----
Seal Type       shamir
Initialized     true
Sealed          false
Total Shares    1
Threshold       1
Version         1.3.4
Cluster Name    vault-cluster-2ebb06b4
Cluster ID      b4fc7a4e-874b-a219-df41-b9ddb9dgg581
HA Enabled      false

• vault kv put secret/hello foo=world MY_FIRST_KEY=MY_FIRST_VALUE
• vault kv put secret/hello foo=world ADDITIONAL_KEY=ADDITIONAL_VALUE

Read:

 vault kv get secret/hello
 ====== Metadata ======
Key              Value
---              -----
created_time     2020-03-29T13:34:29.337076Z
deletion_time    n/a
destroyed        false
version          2

===== Data =====
Key        Value
---        -----
MY_FIRST_KEY    MY_FIRST_VALUE
ADDITIONAL_KEY        ADDITIONAL_VALUE

vault kv get -field=ADDITIONAL_KEY secret/hello
ADDITIONAL_VALUE

vault server -dev

Error initializing listener of type tcp: listen tcp 127.0.0.1:8200: bind: address already in use

 vault kv put secret/hello foo=world
 Get https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/internal/ui/mounts/secret/hello: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8200: connect: connection refused

vault kv put secret/hello foo=world
Get https://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/internal/ui/mounts/secret/hello: http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client

vault server -config vault-config.hcl
error loading configuration from vault-config.hcl: stat vault-config.hcl: no such file or directory

Related terms

• X.509
• vault secrets enable pki

See also

• vault [ secrets enable | kv put | kv get | server | operator | auth | token | secrets | auth enable | status ] Vault Changelog, vault help
• GDPR
• CA, FreeIPA, PKI, OpenCA, Wildcard certificate, certtool, certbot (Let's Encrypt), certinfo (Cloudflare), ACME, Boulder, cfssl (Cloudflare), Public key certificate, public key, TLS and X.509, OCSP, Subject Alternative Name (SAN), openssl ca, Self signed certificate, CSR, keytool, ACM, KMS, aws acm, IdenTrust, multirootca, cert-manager
• HashiCorp: HCP, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Vagrant, Sentinel, Consul, Packer, Waypoint, Boundary, Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar
• Secrets: Kubernetes secrets, ansible-vault, Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secret Manager, git-crypt, SOPS: Secrets OPerationS, Google Cloud Secret Manager