Vault Foundation for Developers digs into the conceptual and practical sides of secrets management, with a focus on HashiCorp’s Vault. The course opens with a module on secrets management fundamentals. It explains why hardcoded API keys, database passwords, and other credentials scattered across a codebase create risk. It also covers why centralizing them behind a dedicated manager matters to developers, not just operations teams. From there, an introduction to Vault covers the platform’s architecture and core capabilities. Attendees install and configure their own instance rather than only watching a walkthrough.
Attendees then explore secrets management in Kubernetes environments, since containerized applications need their own pattern for retrieving credentials at startup. From there, they move into the practical work of integrating an application directly with Vault. This lets the application fetch secrets securely at runtime instead of reading them from a local configuration file. Each module pairs a short lecture with a lab. Developers write and run the integration code themselves rather than simply reviewing a slide about it. By the end of the day, attendees can explain the reasoning behind centralized secrets management to teammates. They can also apply the same integration pattern to their own applications.
Who Should Attend
Developers, IT Staff, Technical Managers, DevOps
What Attendees Will Learn
Upon completing Vault Foundation for Developers, attendees will be able to:
- Explain secrets management fundamentals and why centralized secrets managers matter
- Install and configure HashiCorp Vault as a secrets manager
- Manage secrets for Kubernetes-based applications using Vault
- Integrate applications directly with Vault to retrieve secrets securely at runtime
- Apply secure secrets handling practices to cloud native application development
Prerequisites
Students should have basic Linux or command line familiarity.