vault

Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/commands.

• Connect to a Vault server and initialize a new encrypted data store:

vault init

• Unseal (unlock) the vault, by providing one of the key shares needed to access the encrypted data store:

vault unseal key-share-x

• Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server, using an authentication token:

vault auth authentication_token

• Store a new secret in the vault, using the generic back-end called “secret”:

vault write secret/hello value=world

• Read a value from the vault, using the generic back-end called “secret”:

vault read secret/hello

• Read a specific field from the value:

vault read -field=field_name secret/hello

• Seal (lock) the Vault server, by removing the encryption key of the data store from memory:

vault seal