🚀 Securing Your Infrastructure with Vault (Paul Stack)

Learn how to secure your infrastructure with HashiCorp Vault, automate certificate management, and generate temporary credentials with this comprehensive talk on Vault's features and integrations.

Key takeaways
  • Use HashiCorp Vault for infrastructure security and automate certificate management to simplify the process
  • Vault provides dynamic secrets and credentials for applications and services
  • Implement TLS encryption and automate certificate renewal and revocation
  • Set up a Vault cluster for high availability and use Terraform for configuration management
  • Integrate Vault with databases and applications to provide secure access to resources
  • Generate certificates using Terraform and Vault, and automatically deploy and rotate certificates
  • Use Vault for secret management, such as storing and managing database credentials
  • Implement lease management for temporary credentials and revocation of credentials when no longer needed
  • Use Vault to provide secure communication between services and applications
  • Automate certificate issuance and management using Vault and Terraform
  • Use Vault’s PKI integration to generate and manage certificates for applications and services
  • Integrate Vault with Kafka and other data sources to provide secure access to data
  • Use Vault to provide a centralized and secure way to manage credentials and secrets
  • Implement HAProxy as a TLS proxy to simplify TLS management
  • Automate deployments and startup of applications using Nomad and Vault