5 HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes
This chapter covers
- Enabling HashiCorp Vault for use by end user applications deployed to Kubernetes
- Integrating Kubernetes authentication to simplify access to Vault resources
- Accessing secrets stored in HashiCorp Vault by applications deployed to Kubernetes
Chapter 4 introduced HashiCorp Vault as a KMS that could be used to provide encryption for secrets and other resources stored in etcd—the key/value datastore for Kubernetes—so these values could not be readily accessed because they were stored at rest.
This chapter focuses on the importance of using a secrets management tool, like HashiCorp Vault, to securely store and manage sensitive assets for applications deployed to Kubernetes as well as demonstrating ...
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