README.md

Provision a Development Vault Cluster in Vagrant

The goal of this guide is to allow users to easily provision a development Vault cluster in just a few commands.

Reference Material

• Vagrant Getting Started
• Vagrant Docs
• Vault Getting Started
• Vault Docs

Estimated Time to Complete

5 minutes.

Challenge

There are many different ways to provision and configure an easily accessible development Vault cluster, making it difficult to get started.

Solution

Provision a development Vault cluster in Vagrant.

The Vagrant Development Vault guide is for educational purposes only. It's designed to allow you to quickly standup a single instance with Vault running in -dev mode. The single node is provisioned into a local VM, allowing for easy access to the instance. Because Vault is running in -dev mode, all data is in-memory and not persisted to disk. If any agent fails or the node restarts, all data will be lost. This is only mean for local use.

Prerequisites

• Download Vagrant
• Download Virtualbox

Steps

We will now provision the development Vault cluster in Vagrant.

Step 1: Start Vagrant

Run vagrant up to start the VM and configure Vault. That's it! Once provisioned, view the Vagrant ouput for next steps.

CLI

vagrant up Command

Request

$ vagrant up

Response

Next Steps

Now that you've provisioned and configured a best practices Vault & Consul cluster, visit our learn site.