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Running Vault on HashiCorp Nomad, Part 1

What's this blog post about?

This text provides an in-depth guide on how to deploy the underlying HashiCorp Nomad infrastructure and configuration to run HashiCorp Vault as a Nomad job. It covers various aspects of this process, including setting up the necessary VMs, configuring security groups, and using Terraform for infrastructure management. The text also discusses the use of cloud-init scripts for server configuration and the bootstrapping of Nomad's ACL system with an initial management token. Additionally, it touches upon future plans to explore deploying Vault as a Nomad job and configuring it, as well as automating day-to-day operations of Vault.

Company
HashiCorp

Date published
April 30, 2024

Author(s)
Rob Barnes

Word count
2725

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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