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Memento Mori

This post takes a look at using Hashicorp's Vault to manage dynamic database credentials, using Chef. For this post (and the my previous post on Vault), I started working with Vault pretty quickly via this docker-compose setup I found via GitHub. It's a very quick way to get a Vault instance with a Consul backend. You'd never do this for production, since they are single instances, but for functional testing, it's enough.

This post takes a look at using Hashicorp's Vault to manage secrets for SSH authentication. For this post, I started working with Vault pretty quickly via this docker-compose setup I found via GitHub. It's a very quick way to get a Vault instance with a Consul backend. You'd never do this for production, since they are single instances, but for functional testing, it's enough. Requirements What are we trying to accomplish?