Compatibility Vault is said to be compatible with an infrastructure component when pods are available

and connect to all components in Thought Machine’s cloud environment. As a result, Vault

is functional. The infrastructure specification for the cloud environment is shared with

clients in this document.

Vault infrastructure

components

The infrastructure components currently in scope of compatibility testing are Kubernetes,

Kafka, HashiCorp Vault, Istio, PostgreSQL and OpenShift.

Major release Refers to the broad industry practice of releasing new features, new architecture or large

changes to a component. Major release X is normally denoted as X.Y.

Minor or patch

release

Refers to the broad industry practice of releasing small functional changes or vulnerability

fixes to a component which are backwards-compatible. These releases are normally

denoted as X.Y.Z.

Certified

Environment (CE)

A window of release versions for each infrastructure component that is compatible with

Vault. For example, Kubernetes 1.18, 1.19 and 1.20 is Vault’s Certified Environment for

Kubernetes.