Here is a brief story of how to finish your procrastination and stop beating yourself about this once and for all. I know that these kinds of stories are a bit like weight-loss, getting in shape, being productive tips right? You must have heard or read hundreds of versions and…

This is a quick and dirty (read practical for business jargon) intro to Vault Policies which determine the level of access a user will have within Vault.

By default, upon creation, Vault creates a root policy which is unique in the sense that it can do everything in Vault. …

I remember in at least one of the apps I worked in we had both user-pass and LDAP creds, with more types on the way but each used their own tool to authenticate. You had to wrestle with LDAP, manage your manual users, dome something else for another connection on…

Every developer has used encryption at some point and while easy to use, security is a major issue. You need those keys safe. You could of course stuff your keys in Vault key-value secrets engine but why manage keys at all. Let Vault handle it with the Transit Engine.

What…

Everyone uses an authenticator app these days. Well, vault can provide the same service for your apps. Let’s create our own 2FA for our apps and see how convenient it is.

What we need

• Vault, somewhere (I’m using local)
• Some sort of authenticator
• Postman or bash is good enough

Goal: QR code, readable…

Every application has some use for various DBs right? Where are the db credentials kept though. In app config? In k8s secrets? Why not let Vault handle it?

Let’s do a quick and dirty start. To setup our DB Engine in Vault we can follow the below setups. We need

• …

Let’s do a bit of an experimentation shall we, let’s create IAM Users automagically.

• To do this, we need a running Vault, preferably local. I have a local one up and running.

Our goal here is to give EC2 instance management permissions to certain developers so we need to generate…

I feel like I’m hitting myself with the name of these “nothing to something” stories but so be it. I don’t know Go and I have to start somewhere. Let’s do it together.

It is assumed that you know programming basics since I will not be going into detail on…