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Running a Vault server

Running a Vault server - Vault Tutorial

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Running a Vault server

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- [Instructor] Now we're ready to start a production server. Before we get started, a caution. This will be a production-style server, not a production-ready server. The operational and configuration requirements for a fully-hardened, production-ready Vault server are beyond what we'll cover in this course, as it involves advanced Linux administration. In the resources section for this course, I'll include links to some guides on deploying a secured, production-ready Vault server. Here's an outline of what we'll do. We'll set some basic configuration using a configuration file. We'll start and initialize the server. We'll unseal the server, and then we'll test it by executing some CLI commands. If you've viewed the video on running a dev server, this will be familiar. The process is similar, but there are key differences I'll cover as we go. First, stop any other Vault servers you have running with control-C. Open the exercise files with Visual Studio Code, and open the config.hcl…

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