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, itโ€™s time to tackle Kubernetes authentication, from outside the cluster. In this post, weโ€™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, weโ€™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 …