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5. Getting Started with Vault

Navin Sabharwal1  , Sarvesh Pandey2 and Piyush Pandey3
(1)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(2)
Noida, UP, India
(3)
New Delhi, India
 
This chapter covers the core concepts of Vault.

  • Introduction to HashiCorp Vault

  • Understanding Vault’s logical architecture

  • Understanding Vault’s security model

  • Installing Vault and integration with AWS

Note

In this chapter, all references to Vault are for the open source version. Thus, features like disaster recovery, enterprise governance, compliance, and replication across DCs are not explained because they ...

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