Notes

These docs are a combination of my notes from the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate training Kodekloud, Udemy and HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional 2022 training KodeKloud, Udemy

The slides for these two trainings can be seen in the associate-training and operations-training folders.

Table of Contents

1. Vault Install and Setup
2. Fault-Tolerant Vault Environments
3. Monitoring a Vault Environment
4. Production Hardening
5. Auth Methods
6. Access Control and Policies
7. Maintenance
8. HSM Integration (Enterprise)
9. Vault Security Model
10. Secrets Engines
11. Vault Agent
12. Scale Vault For Performance

General Notes

# Start vault in dev mode
vault server -dev

• Master key has been renamed to root key

Token Types and Their Prefix

• Service tokens –> hvs.*
• Batch tokens –> hvb.*
• Recovery tokens –> hvr.*