Secrets Management

3 hr 48 min19 tutorials

Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets and provides a unified interface to any secret while providing tight access control. Learn different secrets engines that are available.

Static Secrets: Key/Value Secrets Engine

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

15 minInteractive

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.

20 minInteractive

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.

13 minInteractive

Dynamic Secrets: Database Secrets Engine

Dynamically generate, manage, and revoke database credentials that meet your organization's password policy requirements.

14 minInteractive

Database Root Credential Rotation

Vault enables the combined database secrets engines to automate the rotation of root credentials.

6 min

Database Static Roles and Credential Rotation

Vault 1.2 extended the database secrets engine so that the users can create a static database role and rotate its password periodically.

12 min Video

Active Directory Service Account Check-out

Provide and rotate credentials for configured Active Directory (AD) accounts as well as check-out and check-in shared credentials.

16 min

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

Azure Secrets Engine

Vault can dynamically generate Azure service principal for applications to use.

11 min

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.

14 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 min VideoInteractive

User Configurable Password Generation for Secret Engines

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

6 minInteractive

Enterprise

[Tech Preview] Key Management Secrets Engine

Vault 1.6 introduces a secrets engine designed to help with cloud provider key lifecycle management.

10 min

Enterprise

KMIP Secrets Engine

Vault 1.2 introduced a Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) secrets engine which allows Vault to serve as a KMIP server.

17 min

Build Your Own Plugins

Learn how to build, register, and mount a custom plugin.

7 min Video

Generate Nomad Tokens with HashiCorp Vault

Configure the Nomad secrets engine in Vault to deliver Vault-managed Nomad ACL tokens.

3 min

Generate mTLS Certificates for Nomad using Vault

Use Vault and consul-template to create and configure Vault-managed mTLS certificates for Nomad's API and RPC traffic.

13 min

Vault Integration and Retrieving Dynamic Secrets

Generate and use Vault-managed PostgreSQL credentials as part of a Nomad job specification.