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Published inMar 2020
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Murat Karslioglu
Murat Karslioglu
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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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Securing credentials using HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault is a popular tool for securely storing and accessing secrets such as credentials, API keys, and certificates. Vault provides secure secret storage, on-demand dynamic secrets, data encryption, and support for secret revocation.

In this section, we will cover the installation and basic use case of accessing and storing secrets for Kubernetes.

Getting ready

Clone the k8sdevopscookbook/src repository to your workstation to use the manifest files in the chapter9 directory, as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/k8sdevopscookbook/src.git
$ cd src/chapter9

Make sure you have a Kubernetes cluster ready and kubectl and helm configured to manage the cluster resources.

How to do it…

This section is further divided into the following subsections to make this process easier:

  • Installing Vault on Kubernetes
  • Accessing the Vault UI
  • Storing credentials on Vault

Installing Vault on Kubernetes

This recipe will show you how to get a Vault...

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Murat Karslioglu

Murat Karslioglu is a distinguished technologist with years of experience using infrastructure tools and technologies. Murat is currently the VP of products at MayaData, a start-up that builds data agility platform for stateful applications, and a maintainer of open source projects, namely OpenEBS and Litmus. In his free time, Murat is busy writing practical articles about DevOps best practices, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and running stateful applications on popular Kubernetes platforms on his blog, Containerized Me. Murat also runs a cloud-native news curator site, The Containerized Today, where he regularly publishes updates on the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Read more about Murat Karslioglu