About this guide

This guide highlights the key information and steps for clients installing and maintaining their own installation of Vault Core and associated services.

The guides are discussed in the order that you should consider them as you plan for and install Vault for the first time and perform associated post-installation tasks.

Purpose

This guide highlights the key information and steps for clients installing and maintaining their own installation of Vault Core and associated services.

The guides are discussed in the order that you should consider them as you plan for and install Vault for the first time and perform associated post-installation tasks.

Installation

Surrounding Infrastructure

Vault Installation

Observability Installation

Surrounding Infrastructure

Vault Core relies on surrounding infrastructure including Kubernetes, Postgres, Istio, Kafka and a secrets manager: HashiCorp Vault, or (on AWS) AWS Secrets Manager.

The Vault Cloud Infrastructure guide describes this in more detail, including the choices clients can make about where these components are run.

Some of the components supplied in the release are intended only for non-production environments. Infrastructure components shipped with Vault and their deployment guidance are: 

https://docs.thoughtmachine.net/vault-core/4-6/EN/environment_and_installation/infrastructure_docs/infrastructure_and_installation_guides/getting_started_with_vault_core/#about_this_guide