Operations fundamentals

Learn basic Vault operations that are common to both Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise users.

7 tutorials

40min
Implement identity entities and groups
Create entities, entity aliases, and groups to establish and manage Vault client identity across multiple auth methods.
- Vault
- Interactive
20min
Codify Vault Enterprise management with Terraform
Improve collaboration, increase repeatability, and reduce human errors by codifying Vault Enterprise management with the Terraform Vault provider.
- Vault
- Terraform
24min
Restrict API and storage access during incident response
Respond to incidents with features you can use to restrict storage or API access.
- Vault
27min
Audit Vault with Elasticsearch for incident response
Audit Vault server requests and responses with Elasticsearch as part of your proactive incident response workflow.
- Vault
- Terraform
20min
Migrate to HCP Vault Dedicated with codified configuration
Use Terraform to migrate a self-hosted Vault server to HCP Vault Dedicated with configuration as code.
- Vault
- Terraform
- Interactive
27min
Benchmark Vault performance
Run vault-benchmark to test the performance of Vault auth methods and secrets engines.
- Vault
- Interactive
33min
Protect against resource exhaustion
Implement protections to prevent misbehaving applications and clients from exhausting available resources.
- Vault
- Interactive