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How to Write a Secrets Engine for HashiCorp Vault from Scratch

See how a HashiCorp Vault secrets engine plugin is built, step by step.

If you have your own unique system that you'd like Vault to connect to and roll credentials for, there's a way to build your own secrets engine if one of our official ones isn't going to work for you.

We also have a new HashiCorp Learn tutorial on building a Custom Secrets Engine for Vault that will stay up-to-date for this topic.

»What You'll Learn

In this HashiTalks: Build demo, see how a HashiCorp Vault secrets engine plugin is built from scratch. This talk goes step by step and tells you all the important interfaces you need to be aware of.

Speaker: Rosemary Wang, Dev Advocate, HashiCorp

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