Running a Vault service involves provisioning servers and managing their storage and lifecycle. The historical CoreOS Vault Operator attempted to automate that server-management work on Kubernetes and depended on etcd-operator. It is archived and distinct from today’s Vault Secrets Operator, which delivers secrets to workloads. For an inherited installation, preserve the storage, policies and keys needed to recover the Vault service before choosing new server packaging or a separate application secret-delivery integration.
Current guidance
This entry refers to the archived CoreOS Vault Operator, which depended on etcd-operator. It is not today’s Vault Secrets Operator.
Separate operating the Vault server from delivering secrets to workloads. HashiCorp's current Helm chart is a server deployment option; a secret-synchronization controller solves a different problem.
Inventory the old storage backend, encryption/unseal process, policies and clients. Rehearse recovery with the required keys and credentials before changing server topology. An apparent chart replacement does not migrate encrypted storage or restore access automatically.
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vault-operator simplifies vault cluster configuration and management. This chart bootstraps a vault-operator and allows the deployment of vault cluster(s). It depends on the etcd-operator being installed.
The Vault Operator aims to make it easier to install, manage, and maintain instances of HashiCorp Vault, a tool designed for storing, managing, and controlling access to secrets, such as tokens, passwords, certificates, and API keys on Kubernetes clusters.
Vault on demand
The Vault Operator is designed to make it easier to consume and operate Vault on Kubernetes by leveraging underlying Kubernetes capabilities to automate the provisioning, scaling, and backup/restore operations of Vault. With it, you can deploy a Vault service as easily as you can deploy a single stateless container on Kubernetes. Behind the scenes, the operator is designed to take care of such housekeeping tasks as TLS, etcd provisioning and setup, upgrades, and other details. In this way, you can consume Vault on your cluster the way you would be it provided as a service offered by a cloud provider, only in an open and cloud-agnostic way.
The Vault Operator powers the Vault Open Cloud Service introduced in the CoreOS Tectonic platform in December 2017. By releasing the Vault Operator as an open source project, Red Hat now aims to enable ISVs and IT organizations to use Vault as a managed service in their own environments, powered by automated operations.
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