# vault

> A CLI to interact with HashiCorp Vault.

- Connect to a Vault server and initialize a new encrypted data store:

`vault init`

- Unseal or 'unlock' the vault by providing one of the key shares needed to access the encrypted data store:

`vault unseal {{key-share-x}}`

- Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server using an authentication token:

`vault auth {{authentication-token}}`

- Store a new secret in the vault using the generic back-end, called 'secret':

`vault write secret/{{hello}} value={{world}}`

- Read a value from the vault using the generic back-end, called 'secret':

`vault read secret/{{hello}}`

- Seal or 'lock' the Vault server by removing the encryption key of the data store from memory:

`vault seal`