Vault Automation

Blog post: Getting started with Hashicorp Vault v1.6.1

Supprted versions

• Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 64-bit
• Ansible v2.11+
• Vault v1.6.1+
• Consul v1.9.1+

References

Docker

• Github - Alpine Non-root User
• Resource limits, mlock, and containers, oh my
• Github - Unable to build alpine-base image
• Compose file version 3 reference

Vault

• Vault - Filesystem Storage Backend
• Installing Vault
• Github -hashicorp/docker-vault
• Github - testdrivenio/vault-consul-docker
• docker-vault/0.X/Dockerfile
• Delete Root
• Create a .pfx/.p12 Certificate File Using OpenSSL
• Client Authentication (mTLS)
• docker-consul/0.X/Dockerfile
• Vault Configuration
• Docker + Consul + Vault:A Practical Guide
• Github issue - CLI ignoring certificate-related flags #2946
• Install Vault on macOS
• Vault API endpoints
• Install and Configure Hashicorp Vault Server on Ubuntu / CentOS / Debian
• Vault Commands (CLI)
• Security – Create self signed SAN certificate with OpenSSL

Consul

• Managing Secrets with Vault and Consul
• consul-demo-tracing/datadog/consul_config/config.hcl
• Consul - Configuration
• Consul - Status HTTP API
• Configure Consul agents
• Setup Consul Cluster on Ubuntu 20.04|18.04|16.04 & Debian 10/9
• How To Install Hashicorp Vault On Ubuntu 18.04

Ansible

• ansible.builtin.uri – Interacts with webservices
• Using Ansible to interact with web endpoints
• StackOverFlow - Ansible: get current target host's IP address

NGINX

• Getting curl to output HTTP status code?
• Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx