Episode 5: Unveiling the Force: A Star Wars Saga of Vault Auto Unseal

ebenamor
7 min readNov 24, 2023

Buckle up as we traverse the stars, configuring Rebel bases, wielding the lightsaber of transit auto unseal, navigating the Galactic Senate of policies, and infusing the entire journey with the spirit of Star Wars.

In our journey today, we will discover the power of using the auto unseal mechanism that vault provides.

In the first vault episode we took at the default unsealing mechanism using Shamir’s secret sharing algorithm, today is transit key way. Why? because as Hashicorp mentioned

this process is manual and can become painful when you have many Vault clusters as there are now many different key holders with many different keys.

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Table of Contents:

  1. Deploying the Rebel Alliances: Vault Instances 🏰
  2. Transit Auto Unseal: The Jedi Code for Vault-2 🌠
  3. Initial Vault Configuration🦾
  4. The Epic Journey: Auto Unsealing in Action ⚔️
  5. Conclusion: May the Vault Be with You! 🌌

Deploying the Rebel Alliances: Vault Instances 🏰

In the previous episodes we already have a vault instance running and managed via terraform, I mentioned also that is it not the right way to do it in production environments.

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