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Vault

Manage Secrets & Protect Sensitive Data

  • Install
  • Tutorials
  • Documentation
  • Integrations

What is Vault?

Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets, and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

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Getting Started

Use Vault to securely store, access, and manage secrets and other sensitive data.

Developer quick start
Operations quick start
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Use Cases

  • 6 tutorials
    Secrets management
    Store, access, and deploy secrets for applications, systems, and infrastructure.
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  • 3 tutorials
    Database credential rotation
    Secure database access and manage the database credential lifecycle with Vault's database secrets engine.
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  • 5 tutorials
    Data encryption
    Vault provides Encryption as a Service (EaaS) to enable security teams to fortify data during transit and at rest. So even if an intrusion occurs, your data is encrypted and the attacker would never get a hold of the raw data.
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Get Certified

  • 3 tutorials
    Prepare for the Vault Associate (002) certification exam
    Prepare for your Vault Associate 002 certification exam. Choose to follow an in-depth guide or to review select exam topics depending on the kind of preparation support you need. Then review sample questions to learn what to expect on exam day.
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  • 3 tutorials
    Prepare for the Vault Operations Professional certification exam
    Prepare for your Vault Professional certification exam. Choose to follow an in-depth guide or to review select exam topics depending on the kind of preparation support you need. Then explore an exam orientation guide to learn what to expect on exam day.
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Popular Vault Features

  • Key/Value Secrets Engine
    Key-value store used to persist arbitrary secrets within the configured physical storage for Vault.
  • Database Secrets Engine
    Dynamically generates database credentials based on pre-configured roles.
  • Transit Secrets Engine
    Encrypt data in-transit to provide encryption as a service.
  • Transform Secrets Engine
    An Enterprise feature generates cryptographically secure tokens mapped to secure highly sensitive data.