This is a comprehensive, introductory course that covers HashiCorp’s Vault. The course is aimed at both Vault administrators operationalizing vault and developers writing applications that utilize Vault secrets. The first part of this course covers the operational components of Vault including:

• Initializing a Vault
• Understanding secrets and leases
• Mounting and configuring secret backends with Vault
• Configuring and parsing audit backends with Vault
• Deploying Vault in an HA environment

The second part of this course covers techniques for integrating Vault secrets into your applications including:

• Using Consul Template and Envconsul
• Communicating directly with Vault in your application