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vault — Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/command

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Problem

How to use the vault command: Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/commands>.

Solution

vault — Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/commands>.

Connect to a Vault server and initialize a new encrypted data store:

vault init

Unseal (unlock) the vault, by providing one of the key shares needed to access the encrypted data store:

vault unseal {{key-share-x}}

Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server, using an authentication token:

vault auth {{authentication_token}}

Store a new secret in the vault, using the generic back-end called "secret":

vault write secret/{{hello}} value={{world}}

Read a value from the vault, using the generic back-end called "secret":

vault read secret/{{hello}}

Read a specific field from the value:

vault read -field={{field_name}} secret/{{hello}}

Seal (lock) the Vault server, by removing the encryption key of the data store from memory:

vault seal

Code Snippets

Connect to a Vault server and initialize a new encrypted data store

vault init

Unseal (unlock) the vault, by providing one of the key shares needed to access the encrypted data store

vault unseal {{key-share-x}}

Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server, using an authentication token

vault auth {{authentication_token}}

Store a new secret in the vault, using the generic back-end called "secret"

vault write secret/{{hello}} value={{world}}

Read a value from the vault, using the generic back-end called "secret"

vault read secret/{{hello}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/vault

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