Adopting HashiCorp Vault: Deployment, Adoption, and Beyond
summary
Detailed Day‑0 to Day‑N playbook for Vault deployments: use Consul storage backend for strong consistency, prefer immutable IaC deployments (Terraform/Ansible/Puppet/Chef), enable SELinux, run telemetry and consul snapshots for backups, and treat KMS auto‑unseal as critical — accidental KMS rotation/deletion is catastrophic. Use Shamir with master key split five ways, hold a key‑officer ceremony, rotate storage keys online and master keys yearly, and scale with namespaces or Vault Enterprise replication (one org ran 10–15 open‑source clusters before consolidating).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to Vault
- 4:15What is HashiCorp Vault
- 14:47Deploying Vault at Scale
- 22:54Day-to-Day Vault Operations
- 28:29Summary and Resources
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