Use cases for using Vault ? How to mitigate the below mentioned cases
- For the plain text passwords stored in notepads
- AWS Access/Secret keys stored in notepads
- Tokens stored in notepads
We need a system with functionalities
- Manage Secrets and Protect Sensivite Data
- Idenity Based Access Managment
- Generate Dynamic Secrets[DB Creds,AWS Creds and others]
- Open Source
Use Case - Dynamic Secrets
- Users request credentials
- Vault share the dynamic secrets with lifespan for the secret
- When users request after the expiry , vault will generate new secret
Preparation materials
https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/tutorials/associate-cert-003
Exam Pattern & Cost
Overview of Hashicorp Vault
- HashiCorp Vault allows organization to securely store secrets like tokens,passwords,certificates along with access management for protecting secrets.
- Secrets can include database passwords, AWS Secret/Secret keys, API Tokens, encryption keys
- Once vault is integrated with multiple backends, major access related to Access Management can be taken care by vault.
Installing Vault in Windows Servers:
- Vault installation is very easy
- You have a binary file, we need to download and use it
Supported platforms
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- Solaris
Overview of vault Dev mode
- The Dev server mode in Vault is useful for local development & testing
- Not very secure
- Everything is stored in-memory[will loose data on every restart]
- Start dev server by running the command
vault server -dev
Copy the url - http://127.0.0.1:8200 , which is highlighted
and also copy the token, which is required for login
Go to command prompt and type Ctrl+X , it will break the dev url then the command
vault status
Error checking seal status: Get "http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/seal-status": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8200: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
Try to run the dev URL command vault server -dev, render the url with the new token in the cmd prompt
Conclusion : Discussed about basics of Hashicorp vault, required software's to run the HashiCorp vault.
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