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Managing Externally Provisioned Vault Servers

The KubeVault operator can manage policies and secret engines of Vault servers which are not provisioned by the KubeVault operator. These Vault servers can be running outside a Kubernetes cluster or running inside a Kubernetes cluster but provisioned using a Helm chart.

The KubeVault operator uses an AppBinding to connect to an externally provisioned Vault server. Following authentication methods are currently supported by the KubeVault operator: