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Overview
The KubeVault operator makes it easy to deploy, maintain and manage Vault servers in Kubernetes clusters. It covers automatic initialization and unsealing and also stores unseal keys and root token in a secure way. The KubeVault operator can manage policies and secret engines of Vault servers which are not provisioned by the KubeVault operator. It has the following features:
Vault Policy Management: Provides a Kubernetes native way to manage Vault policies and bind those policies to the users or the auth method roles.
Vault Secret Engine Management: Provides a Kubernetes native way to manage Vault secret engines.
Setup Vault Server
Deploy Vault server using the KubeVault operator:
Configure external Vault server so that the KubeVault operator can communicate with it: