Hashicorp Vault: The Advanced Course

What you'll learn
Advanced topics with HashiCorp Vault
How to turn Vault into an Intermediate Certificate Authority
Securing Vault and the Consul storage backend
Increase the security of data in Vault using Sentinel policies
How to extend Vault to other environments and protect against disaster recovery
How to offload administrative burden by using Vault Namespaces
Integrating Vault with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Requirements
Basic understanding of HashiCorp Vault
Students preferably have experience with deploying and running Vault

Description
The HashiCorp Vault Advanced course will familiarize students with more advanced topics of HashiCorp Vault with both lectures and lab demonstrations. Go beyond just "getting started" and explore the real power of using Vault in your environment. The course will include up-to-date topics such as Vault Replication, the PKI secrets engine, Consul ACLs for Vault, HashiCorp Sentinel for Vault, Namespaces, and other topics that are frequently seen in organizations using Vault today. Recently recorded, all the information is new and up to date.If you're looking for a course to teach you how to deploy and manage advanced features in a Vault environment, you're in the right place. About the InstructorYour instructor for this course, Bryan Krausen, is highly-regarded as a HashiCorp expert. Bryan has been working with HashiCorp Vault for over 5 years ago and has deployed Vault for many large Enterprise customers. He has taught over 20,000 students, including training some of the largest companies in the US. He has several courses on HashiCorp Vault and has co-authored the book Running HashiCorp Vault in Production. Bryan holds multiple Vault certifications, including one of the first to pass the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate certification while it was in the ALPHA stage and the only person in the world to hold the partner cert HashiCorp Vault Expert.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Section 2: HashiCorp Vault Replication

Lecture 2 Section Overview

Lecture 3 Setting the Stage

Lecture 4 Replication Architecture

Lecture 5 Network Ports for Replication

Lecture 6 Vault Secondary Token

Lecture 7 How Vault Replication Works

Lecture 8 Configuring Vault Replication

Lecture 9 Monitoring Replication

Lecture 10 Vault Replication Demo Preview

Lecture 11 Lab Environment & Demo

Section 3: Vault PKI Secrets Engine

Lecture 12 Section Overview

Lecture 13 Identifying the Problem with Certs

Lecture 14 Intro to the PKI Secrets Engine

Lecture 15 PKI Secrets Engine Examples

Lecture 16 Configuring the PKI Secrets Engine

Lecture 17 Vault Policies for PKI Secrets Engine

Lecture 18 PKI Secrets Engine Demo Preview

Lecture 19 Lab Environment and Demo

Section 4: Consul ACLs for Vault

Lecture 20 Section Overview

Lecture 21 What are Consul ACLs?

Lecture 22 Why does Vault need Consul ACLs?

Lecture 23 Steps Required for Consul ACL deployment

Lecture 24 Consul ACL Policies for Vault Deployment

Lecture 25 Defining Consul ACL Policies

Lecture 26 Updating Configurations with ACL Token

Lecture 27 Things to Keep in Mind

Lecture 28 Consul ACLs Lab Demo Preview

Lecture 29 Lab Environment and Demo

Section 5: HashiCorp Sentinel for Vault

Lecture 30 Section Overview

Lecture 31 What is Sentinel?

Lecture 32 Vault Policy Evaluation

Lecture 33 Sentinel Examples

Lecture 34 Sentinel Lab Preview

Lecture 35 Sentinel Lab Environment and Demo

Section 6: HashiCorp Vault Namespaces

Lecture 36 Section Overview

Lecture 37 What are Namespaces?

Lecture 38 Using Namespaces for Administrative Delegation

Lecture 39 Namespaces Commands

Lecture 40 Namespaces Lab Preview

Lecture 41 Namespaces Lab Environment and Demo

Section 7: Vault Security Hardening

Lecture 42 Section Overview

Lecture 43 Security Hardening Introduction

Lecture 44 General Security Recommendations

Lecture 45 Operating System Recommendations

Lecture 46 Vault Security Recommendations

Section 8: Understanding Vault Auto Unseal

Lecture 47 What is Vault Auto Unseal?

Lecture 48 Vault Auto Unseal Supported Mechanisms

Lecture 49 Auto Unseal Design Considerations

Lecture 50 Configuring Auto Unseal

Lecture 51 Transit Auto Unseal

Lecture 52 Vault Auto Unseal using Amazon KMS

Section 9: Course Completion

Lecture 53 Thanks for Watching!

Section 10: Bonus Section

Lecture 54 Bonus Section

HashiCorp Vault administrators,Cloud Engineers integrating Vault in Cloud or On-Premises Environments,Vault administrators looking to get more out of their HashiCorp investments

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