vault Command Examples

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