varrocen/hands-on-vault

Hands-on HachiCorp Vault

Hands-on HachiCorp Vault

Setup (macOS)

Install requirements:

brew install openssl jq

Install HachiCorp Vault:

brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/vault

Start a Vault server in "dev" mode:

vault server -dev

Launch a new terminal session.

Copy and run the export VAULT_ADDR=... command from the terminal output.

Example:

export VAULT_ADDR='http://127.0.0.1:8200'

Set the VAULT_TOKEN environment variable value to the generated Root Token value displayed in the terminal output.

Example:

export VAULT_TOKEN="<ROOT_TOKEN>"

Verify the server is running:

vault status

Hands-on

• PKI Secrets Engine