Run Vault in HA Mode for Enhanced Performance

Contributed by: Prachi Jain

Difficulty level: Easy

To ensure reliability and uptime, running Vault in High Availability (HA) mode is essential. To enable HA mode, you must use a supported backend when installing Vault. Consul is a very popular data store for Vault. We will use it in our setup in this Shortcut.

Prerequisites

1. Be sure that helm is installed on your system:

   helm version --short

   If it exists, you will see a version displayed. If helm is not installed, you can find instructions based on your system in the official helm documentation.

2. Verify that minikube is installed:

   minikube version

   You should see a version displayed similar to the following if minikube is already installed:

   

   If minikube doesn’t exist, you can use the instructions provided in the official Kubernetes documentation to install it. If you already have a Kubernetes cluster running, you can use that instead of minikube.

3. Verify that kubectl is installed:

   kubectl version

   If installed, you should see a version displayed similar to the following:

   

   If kubectl isn’t available, you can use the official instructions to set up kubectl on your system.

Set Up Vault in HA Mode

1. Check minikube status:

   minikube status

   That command should output the ...