Securing and protecting passwords using a vault
In this recipe, you will learn how to secure and protect our password, still providing them to our WildFly configuration. The vault is a place where you store passwords, encrypted using a keystore. For our recipe, we will create a keystore and store a password used to connect to the MySQL database. MySQL installation is out of the scope of this book; if you need more information, refer to the MySQL documentation site at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/installing.html.
Getting ready
To get started, let's first create an ad-hoc folder to run our WildFly:
- In a terminal window run the following commands:
$ cd $WILDFLY_HOME $ cp -a standalone sec-std-cfg-node-3
Now it's time to create our keystore. ...
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