HashiCorp Vault Agent Use Cases

You may have heard of the #Vault Agent from #HashiCorp used as a helper sidecar to your application. This is useful because it implements a few functions that you would have otherwise needed to code into your application. In this video, we explore some of the use cases of the Vault agent and run a demo. The VaultAgent has multiple uses some of which are: - Automatically authenticates to keeps token renewed - Cache tokens and leased secrets such as dynamic secrets - Retrieve #secrets and save them into a file based on a template ▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Intro 00:17 - What is the Vault Agent? 02:51 - Vault Agent Caching 05:27 - Configuration Walk-Through 15:58 - Cache Demo 19:32 - HCP Vault Overview 21:21 - Wrapped Secret ID Demo 25:32 - Conclusion ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Courses 🎓 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ - TeKanAid Academy Subscription ► https://bit.ly/subscription-premium - Terraform 101 - Certified Terraform Associate ► https://bit.ly/hc-terraform-101 🎟️ Get 15% off of my Terraform 101 Course with this coupon ► YOUTUBE15TF101 - HashiCorp Sentinel 101 ► https://bit.ly/hc-sentinel-101 - HashiCorp Vault 101 - Certified Vault Associate ► https://bit.ly/hc-vault101 🎟️ Get 15% off of my Vault 101 Course with this coupon ► YOUTUBE15VAULT101 - HashiCorp Vault 201 - Vault for Apps in Kubernetes ► https://bit.ly/hc-vault-201 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Useful Links 🛠 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ - Quick Overview on Vault Agent ► https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vault/secure-introduction#vault-agent - Vault Agent Caching ► https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vault/agent-caching - Vault Agent Caching Video ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNtRk3wRtWM&t=933s - Vault Agent Template Example Configuration ► https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/agent/template#example-configuration - GitHub Repo ► https://github.com/samgabrail/vault-agent-proxy ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Community 🌎 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ - TeKanAid Community Forum ► https://tekanaid.com/community ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Connect 👋 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Website ► https://bit.ly/TeKanAid_Website Facebook Page ► https://bit.ly/TeKanAid_Facebook Don't forget to subscribe ► https://bit.ly/TeKanAid_YouTube_Subscribe MEDIUM ► https://bit.ly/Sam_Medium TWITTER TeKanAid ► https://bit.ly/TeKanAid_Twitter TWITTER Sam ► https://bit.ly/Sam_Twitter LINKEDIN TeKanAid ► https://bit.ly/TeKanAid_LinkedIn LINKEDIN Sam ► https://bit.ly/Sam_linkedin In this course you will get to: ⭐ Learn everything you need to know about Vault to ace the Vault Associate Exam ⭐ 8+ hours of video content ⭐ Instructor has his camera on making you feel that you're right in the classroom ⭐ Hand-drawn animated diagrams to help you grasp the topics better ⭐ Lots of hands-on labs to learn by doing ⭐ English closed captions that are searchable so you won't miss a word ⭐ Quizzes to help you grasp the material well ⭐ Join our Community