Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault is a beginner's guide to understanding HashiCorp Vault which is popular secrets management project.
This hands-on book provides a guided approach to core Vault concepts, covering everything from fundamental features like static and dynamic secrets, authentication methods, and Vault policies. You'll also discover practical application and operational patterns to effectively leverage Vault's powerful features within your own applications.
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The code examples for this book are in the Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault GitHub repository.
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Anubhav Mishra (@build1point0) is a Senior Director of Product Management at HashiCorp. Previously, he worked in the Office of the CTO at HashiCorp as the Advisor to the CTO and Head of HashiCorp Labs (Product Incubation). He has a passion for emerging technology, developer advocacy, and synthesizing solutions that help people. He also worked at Hootsuite, where he created Atlantis - An Open Source project that helps teams collaborate on Infrastructure using Terraform. He also loves open source software and is continuously finding ways to contribute to projects that excite him. That has led him to contribute to projects like Virtual Kubelet (a CNCF project) and dapr. He has worked on projects like the secrets-store-csi-driver where he helped write the HashiCorp Vault provider that allows users to fetch secrets from Vault and mount them as volumes in containers running in a Kubernetes pod. He often speaks at conferences. In his free time, he DJs, makes music and plays football. He’s a huge Manchester United supporter.