Vault
Change your Vault license
Enterprise
Appropriate Vault Enterprise license required
Assumptions
- You have an available Vault Enterprise license key.
- You have admin privileges for your Vault deployment environment.
Vault Enterprise automatically looks for valid license information in the following locations:
Priority | Location | Variable / Field |
---|---|---|
1 | Environment variable | VAULT_LICENSE |
2 | Environment variable | VAULT_LICENSE_PATH |
3 | Config file | license_path |
To change your current Vault Enterprise license:
- Run
vault version
to confirm the build date of your Vault binary is before the expiry date of your license key. Vault will not start if the applied license is expired. - Access the run environment for your Vault cluster.
- Run
vault license get
to review the features associated with the current license. For example: - Run
vault license inspect
to verify the new license and review and changes to feature support. - Save the current license key to a backup parameter or file.
- Replace the current license key with the new license key.
- Call the
/sys/config/reload/license
endpoint on each standby node for the cluster. Refreshing the license on standby nodes first reduces potential disruptions if you run into problems. - Call the
/sys/config/reload/license
endpoint on the leader node for the cluster. - Run
vault license get
on each node or review the unseal logs for each node to verify the new license applied correctly.