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Bank-Vaults: HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes

by Shriira Press

A practical, in-depth guide to Bank-Vaults, the toolkit and Kubernetes operator that makes HashiCorp Vault practical on Kubernetes. Learn how Bank-Vaults automates the operational complexity of Vault: the Vault-on-Kubernetes problem, the operator/webhook/CLI/SDK architecture, running Vault declaratively, automatic unsealing with cloud KMS, configuration as code (auth, policies, secret engines), transparent secret injection via the mutating webhook, the security model and least privilege, and operating Vault as critical secrets infrastructure.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Bank-Vaults Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — The Vault-on-Kubernetes Problem
4. 4Chapter 3 — Architecture
5. 5Chapter 4 — The Vault Operator
6. 6Chapter 5 — Automatic Unsealing
7. 7Chapter 6 — Configuration as Code
8. 8Chapter 7 — Secret Injection
9. 9Chapter 8 — Security Model and Best Practices
10. 10Chapter 9 — Operations and Observability
11. 11Chapter 10 — Bank-Vaults in Practice