Operations Fundamentals

2 hr 59 min14 tutorials

Learn basic Vault operations that are common to both OSS and Vault Enterprise users.

Configure Vault

Learn how to configure Vault server with specific helpful examples.

Vault High Availability with Consul

This tutorial will walk you through a simple Vault Highly Available (HA) cluster implementation. While this is not an exhaustive or prescriptive tutorial that can be used as a drop-in production example, it covers the basics enough to inform your own production setup.

17 min

Production Hardening

This tutorial provides guidance on best practices for a production hardened deployment of HashiCorp Vault.

5 min

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.

11 minInteractive

Identity: Entities and Groups

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

20 minInteractive

Generate Root Tokens Using Unseal Keys

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

3 minInteractive

Rekeying & Rotating Vault

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

4 minInteractive

Protecting Vault with Resource Quotas

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

13 minInteractive

Codify Management of Vault

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

8 minInteractive

Enterprise

Codify Management of Vault Enterprise

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

14 minInteractive

Troubleshooting Vault

Explore a few general approaches to finding errors and troubleshooting Vault. Learn the difference between audit and operational logs, and how to approach rooting out a bug.

17 min

Troubleshooting Vault on Kubernetes

Explore approaches to finding warnings, errors, and troubleshooting Vault in a Kubernetes environment.

10 min

Performance Tuning

Critical tuning necessary for achieving optimal performance along with explanation of Vault resource limitations.

37 min

Vault Usage Metrics

Explore Vault usage metrics UI to find core metrics.