SE Hangout
Vault Secrets Via API for the REST of Us
Oct 30, 2019
Learn how to access Vault whether you're in a full stateful environment or a minimalist sidecar.
Speakers
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John Boero
Staff Solutions Engineer, HashiCorp
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In this solutions engineering hangout, HashiCorp solutions engineer John Boero will walk through the basics of managing Vault secrets and accessing REST APIs without having a binary CLI or UI. This talk will include some minimalist hotwired tricks for when you don't even have curl. For example, you might be in a restrictive environment such as a minimalist container.
» Q&A
- Isn't OpenSSL is more heavy as compared to
curl? - Are there plans to support file-based secrets?
- How hard is it to perform the authentication process via REST? This is for the case of getting a token as part of the script as opposed to having one already provisioned.
- Are you recommending that we should use bash script as the most lightweight option for containers to communicate with Vault?