Vault and Consul by HashiCorp

Enable engineers to deploy, operate, and integrate Vault and Consul for secure secrets management, service discovery, and service mesh in production.

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Audience: Developers / Architects

Duration: 3 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % – 50 %)

Overview

HashiCorp Vault provides secure enclaves for secrets; Consul solves service discovery, configuration management, and service mesh. Learn Vault cluster deployment, policies, dynamic secrets, and integrate Consul service mesh.

Objective

Enable engineers to deploy, operate, and integrate Vault and Consul for secure secrets management, service discovery, and service mesh in production.

What You Will Learn

Vault overview & secret engines (static, cubbyhole, dynamic, transit EaaS)
Vault authentication, policies, auditing, operations, scalability
Vault identities, namespaces, monitoring, production topologies
Consul architecture & interfaces (API, DNS, UI)
Service discovery, health checks, service mesh, KV store, Consul Template
Hands-on labs installing local Consul agent and integrating with Vault

Course Details

Audience: Developers / Architects

Duration: 3 days

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % – 50 %)

Prerequisites:

Comfortable with a programming language • Comfortable in Linux CLI

Setup: Laptop with Internet • Browser • SSH client

Detailed Outline

Static & dynamic secrets
Transit engine
Authentication

Installation, auto-unseal, clustering
Policies, secure intro

Identities, namespaces, monitoring

Service discovery, configuration, segmentation

Architecture & interfaces
Service mesh
KV store
Consul Template
Local agent