HashiCorp Vault for Dummies: K8s Auth setup in an External Vault (WSL)

Intro This is part three of our Vault for Dummies series. After Part 2 where we set up Vault with Transit Auto-unseal, it’s time to tackle Kubernetes authentication, from outside the cluster. In this post, we’ll walk through setting up Kubernetes auth with an external Vault, so your K8s workloads can securely authenticate and pull …

HashiCorp Vault for Dummies: Transit Auto-Unseal Across 2 WSL Nodes

Intro This is part two of our Vault for Dummies series. After setting up a Vault server with Raft and TLS in part1, we’ll now configure it to auto-unseal at startup using another Vault server as a Transit engine. Perfect if you want to simulate a cluster across nodes in WSL. This guide walks you …

HashiCorp Vault for Dummies: Setup your 1st Vault with TLS (WSL)

Intro Vault by HashiCorp is a powerful tool for managing secrets, credentials, and encrypted data. In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up a local Vault server using Raft storage and TLS in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environment. Whether you’re just starting with secrets management, prepping for the Vault Associate exam, or …

Terraform for dummies part 7: Deploy a static website on Alibaba Cloud

Intro 3 years ago, I started the terraform for dummies series where I wanted to deploy a static website in any cloud provider there was (the dummy in question was me duh:)). But the mistake most of us make is to think AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud are the only Hyperscalers out there. Wrong! Alibaba …