Vault is a secret management tool that equivalent to Key Vault in Azure and KMS in AWS. But vault has lots of other features that the above do not have. If you are a business have quite restrict condition in term of IT. vault may be a good option for you. Because vault is open source and you control everything.
Today I’m actually not going to explain too much about vault. Instead, I’m going to install vault on to my GCP cloud shell.
first you want to download the vault binary from hashicorp site.
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vault/1.2.2/vault_1.2.2_linux_amd64.zip
And then unzip it
unzip vault_1.2.2_linux_amd64.zipfinally set the PATH environmental variable to vault binaries
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/vault" cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s $HOME/vault cd $HOME source ~/.bashrc
you can verify the installation by typing the following command.
$ vault version Vault v1.2.2
