tldr/pages/common/vault.md

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