Interactive Labs

8 hr 32 min37 tutorials

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Your First Secret

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

3 min VideoInteractive

Deploy Vault

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

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Policies

Policies in Vault control what a user can access.

7 minInteractive

Rekeying & Rotating Vault

Vault supports generating new unseal keys as well as rotating the underlying encryption keys. This guide covers rekeying and rotating Vault's encryption keys.

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Generate Root Tokens Using Unseal Keys

Generate a new root token using a threshold of unseal keys.

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Configure Vault as a Certificate Manager in Kubernetes with Helm

Configure Vault as a certificate manager in Kubernetes with Helm.

13 minInteractive

Integrate a Kubernetes Cluster with an External Vault

Integrate a Kubernetes cluster with an existing Vault service.

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Vault Installation to Minikube via Helm

Deploy Vault on Kubernetes locally using Minikube with the official Helm chart.

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Vault Installation to Red Hat OpenShift via Helm

Deploy Vault on Red Hat OpenShift through with the official Helm chart.

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Mount Vault Secrets through Container Storage Interface (CSI) Volume

Mount Vault secrets in your pods and deployments through a Container Storage Interface (CSI) Volume

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Injecting Secrets into Kubernetes Pods via Vault Helm Sidecar

Deploy Vault-unaware applications on Kubernetes that consume Vault Secrets.

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Tokens are the core method for authentication within Vault. For every authentication token and dynamic secret, Vault creates a lease containing information such as duration, renewability, and more. This guide helps you understand the lifecycle of tokens.

21 min VideoInteractive

AppRole Pull Authentication

Authentication is a process in Vault by which user or machine-supplied information is verified to create a token with a pre-configured policy.

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OpenLDAP Secrets Engine

Vault 1.4 introduces a secrets engine designed to help manage existing OpenLDAP entry passwords for UNIX and Linux applications to use.

12 minInteractive

Vault Policies

Policies provide a declarative way to grant or forbid access to certain paths and operations in Vault. This tutorial walks through policy creation workflows.

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Identity: Entities and Groups

This guide demonstrates the commands to create entities, entity aliases, and groups. For the purpose of the demonstration, the userpass auth method will be used.

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ACL Policy Path Templating

As of 0.11, ACL policies support templating to allow non-static policy paths.

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Versioned Key/Value Secrets Engine

Vault 0.10.0 introduced version 2 of the key-value secrets engine which supports versioning your secrets so that you can undo the accidental deletion of secrets or compare different versions of a secret.

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Cubbyhole Response Wrapping

Vault provides the capability to wrap the Vault response and store it in a cubbyhole where the holder of the one-time use wrapping token can unwrap it to uncover the secret.

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Dynamic Secrets: Database Secrets Engine

Vault can dynamically generate secrets on-demand for some systems.

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User Configurable Password Generation for Secret Engines

Learn how to configure how passwords are generated for secret engines.

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Build Your Own Certificate Authority (CA)

Demonstrate the use of PKI secrets engine as an Intermediate-Only certificate authority which potentially allows for higher levels of security.

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Encryption as a Service: Transit Secrets Engine

HashiCorp Vault's transit secrets engine handles cryptographic functions on data in-transit. It can also be understood as encryption as a service.

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Transit Secrets Re-wrapping

Demonstrate one possible way to re-wrap data after rotating an encryption key in the transit engine in Vault.

14 minInteractive

Auto-unseal using Transit Secrets Engine

An example for enabling Auto-unseal with Vault's Transit Secrets Engine.

10 min VideoInteractive

SSH Secrets Engine: One-Time SSH Password

Configure the Vault SSH secrets engine to issue one-time passwords (OTP) every time a client wants to SSH into a remote host.

12 minInteractive

Enterprise

Transform Secrets Engine

Vault 1.4 introduced Tokenization secrets engine which allows generation of cryptographically secure tokens mapped to sensitive data such as credit card numbers.

14 min VideoInteractive

Direct Application Integration

Demonstrates the use of Consul Template and Envconsul tools to retrieve secrets from Vault.

8 min VideoInteractive

Vault Agent with AWS

This guide is an introduction the Vault Agent which was introduced in Vault 0.11. Its basic usage is demonstrated using AWS auth method as an example.

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Vault Agent Caching

Introduce the Agent Caching feature of Vault Agent.

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Vault Agent Templates

This guide demonstrates the Vault Agent Templates feature which was introduced in Vault 1.3. This enables easy integration with Vault making your applications to be Vault-unaware.

9 minInteractive

Vault HA Cluster with Integrated Storage

Build a highly available (HA) Vault cluster using integrated storage as a data persistence layer on your local machine.

16 minInteractive

Use Integrated Storage for HA Coordination

Demonstrate the ha_storage stanza to enable high availability (HA) when non-HA storage backend needs to be used.

12 minInteractive

Monitor Telemetry & Audit Device Log Data with Splunk

This tutorial walks you through monitoring Vault telemetry metrics and audit device log data with Splunk, including configuration, key metrics for monitoring and alerting, and information about the Vault Enterprise Splunk app.

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Protecting Vault with Resource Quotas

Resource quotas allows the Vault operators to implemement protections against misbehaving applications and Vault clients overdrawing resources from Vault.

13 minInteractive

Enterprise

Codify Management of Vault Enterprise

Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repetability while reducing human errors.

11 minInteractive

Codify Management of Vault

Use HashiCorp Terraform's Vault provider to codify Vault management to increase repetability while reducing human errors.

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