Documentation

Welcome to Vault documentation! Vault is an identity-based secret and encryption management system. This documentation covers the main concepts of Vault, what problems it can solve, and contains a quick start for using Vault.

Get Started

Use Vault to securely store, access, and manage secrets and other sensitive data.

CLI Quick Start Developer Quick Start

Use Cases

Secrets Management

Centrally store, access, and deploy secrets across applications, systems, and infrastructure.

Key/Value Database Credentials Kubernetes Secrets

Encryption Services

Securely handle data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and other types of compliance-regulated information.

Transit Secrets Engine Transform Secrets Engine Tokenization

Key Management

Use a standardized workflow for distribution and lifecycle management of cryptographic keys in various KMS providers.

KMIP Secrets Engine Key Management Secrets Engine PKI

Developers