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HashiCorp Vault Fundamentals
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HashiCorp Vault Fundamentals

Learn the basics of HashiCorp Vault in 1 hour
Created bySam Gabrail
Last updated 3/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Explain the purpose of using Vault for modern secrets management
  • Gain a high-level understanding of the architecture and use cases for Vault
  • Set up a Vault server in a lab environment
  • Undertand the basics of the Vault agent

Course content

3 sections18 lectures1h 11m total length
  • Introduction1:55

    This course is a HashiCorp Vault Tutorial for Beginners. It's a 1-hour full course.

    HashiCorp Vault is the prominent secrets management solution today. It is currently used by the top financial institutions and enterprises in the world. I've created this Vault Fundamentals course for you.

    This is a one-hour video course which is a subset of a much larger course that is eight hours long that course is called [HashiCorp Vault 101 - Certified Vault Associate](https://courses.tekanaid.com/p/hashicorp-vault-101-certified-vault-associate) it will help you dig deeper and be ready for the vault associate exam. Stick around till the end of the course as I have a surprise for you in the bonus section.

  • Code Repository0:06

Requirements

  • An open mind and a willingness to learn
  • Basic knowledge of the Linux terminal
  • No coding experience required (but good to have)

Description

This course is a HashiCorp Vault Tutorial for Beginners. It's a 1-hour full course.


HashiCorp Vault is the prominent secrets management solution today. It is currently used by the top financial institutions and enterprises in the world. I've created this vault fundamentals course just for you. This is a one-hour video course for beginners in HashiCorp Vault.


Secrets management is a topic on many security professionals' minds. Secrets sprawl is a common challenge for many organizations. A secret is basically data considered sensitive. It could be usernames, passwords, encryption keys, API keys, and so on. These secrets may live in numerous places in an organization. They could live in source code in git repos. They may be saved in excel files on developers' machines. They could even live on post-it notes under someone's keyboard.


HashiCorp Vault solves this secrets sprawl by centralizing all secrets at an organization into one central location. It also manages access to these secrets with proper auditing mechanisms.


Below are the topics covered in this course:


  • What is HashiCorp Vault?

  • Vault Use Cases

  • Basic Vault CLI Commands

  • Vault Server Modes

  • Vault Architecture - Internals

  • Vault Seal and Unseal

  • The Configuration File

  • Run a Production Vault Server Lab

  • Authentication Methods - Overview

  • Types of Auth Methods

  • Vault Policies - Overview

  • Vault Tokens - Overview

  • Secrets Engines - Overview

  • Replication Design with DR and PR

  • The Vault Agent - Overview

Who this course is for:

  • Practitioners and technology managers looking for an introduction to secrets management with HashiCorp Vault