HashiCorp Vault Fundamentals

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