Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault
 
Course Description
Getting Started with HashiCorp Vault is a beginner-friendly, hands-on training program designed to teach you how to secure sensitive data, manage secrets, and implement robust access control across modern infrastructure environments. Vault is a powerful secrets management and encryption platform used widely in DevOps, cloud security, and enterprise environments—and this course provides the foundational skills needed to deploy and operate it effectively.
 
You’ll learn how Vault works, how to initialize and unseal Vault, manage authentication methods, configure policies, and use dynamic secrets to enhance security automation. Through guided labs and real-world scenarios, you’ll gain practical experience storing and securing credentials, managing tokens, integrating Vault with applications, and using Vault’s advanced features for encryption and secrets rotation.
 
Whether you're new to security engineering or expanding your DevOps toolkit, this course equips you with the essential skills to implement secure, scalable secrets management with HashiCorp Vault.
 
What You’ll Learn
Core concepts and architecture of HashiCorp Vault
Initializing, unsealing, and operating a Vault cluster
Configuring authentication backends (tokens, userpass, GitHub, cloud auth, etc.)
Creating and managing Vault policies for secure access control
Working with static and dynamic secrets for improved security
Using Vault for encryption, key management, and secrets rotation
Integrating Vault with applications and automation workflows
Monitoring, logging, and maintaining Vault in real-world environments
 
Who This Course Is For
DevOps and platform engineers
Security engineers and architects
Cloud engineers working with AWS, Azure, or GCP
Developers needing secure secrets management tools
Anyone beginning their journey with HashiCorp Vault