Manage Secrets and Protect Sensitive Data
Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.
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CLI
Vault's Use Cases
Vault Features
Learn more about secrets management and data protection features with Vault Open Source and collaboration, governance, and multi-datacenter features with Vault Enterprise.
Vault Documentation
These resources are a reference guide for all available features and options of Vault. If you're new to Vault, begin with the Getting Started guide.
- Installing VaultInstalling Vault and Vault Enterprise.
- InternalsTechnical details about Vault's architecture, cryptographic components, and security model.
- Basic ConceptsFoundational concepts critical to understanding how Vault operates.
- Commands (CLI)Managing Vault via its Command Line Interface (CLI).
- ConfigurationDeploying Vault systems and configuring components such as storage and unseal interfaces.
- Vault AgentConfiguring the Vault binary as a client daemon for performing security operations.
- Secret EnginesEngines for performing security operations using secrets stored within Vault.
- Auth MethodsMethods for configuring how users and applications authenticate into Vault.
- Audit DevicesDevices for capturing audit logs monitoring activity within Vault.
- Plugin BackendsConfiguring how Vault operates with external systems and applications via plugins.
- Vault EnterpriseTopics related to Vault Enterprise, Vault's premium varient for professional teams and organizations.
Vault Open Source addresses the technical complexity of managing secrets across distributed cloud infrastructure
Vault Enterprise addresses the organizational complexity of large organizations with governance and multi-datacenter features