Terraform Vault Basics

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Hashicorp is a software company that provides infrastructure management and automation tools.

Its most popular product is the open-source tool Terraform, which allows users to automate the process of creating, changing, and versioning infrastructure.

Hashicorp also provides other tools for infrastructure automation and management, such as Vagrant, Packer, and Vault.

Create a Ec2 machine
Install packages
Install Vault
Start Vault

Install gpg
sudo apt update && sudo apt install gpg

Download the signing key to a new keyring
wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg

Verify the key's fingerprint
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg --fingerprint

Add the HashiCorp repo
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list

sudo apt update

Finally, Install Vault
sudo apt install vault