daveprowse / vac-course

Lab files for the HashiCorp Vault Video Course

HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate (Video Course)

with Dave Prowse (https://prowse.tech)

Introduction

Hello and Welcome!

The HashiCorp Certified Vault Associate video course is designed to teach the basics of Vault and prepare you to take the Vault Associate Certification exam. I build this repository to act as a companion to the video course.

Within this repository you find lab instructions that coincide with the labs in the video course.

Repository link: https://github.com/daveprowse/vac-course

Recommendations

To follow along with me during the labs I suggest you have the following ready:

• A Linux virtual machine (Recommended: Debian, Ubuntu Desktop, or Fedora workstation)

  Minimum 1 CPU and 1 GB RAM (Recommended: 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM)

  Update the system:

  Debian/Ubuntu: apt update && apt upgrade -y

  Fedora: dnf update -y

  Note: I suggest using VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, KVM or Proxmox for your virtual machines.

• Access to a terminal for your operating system.

  Note: I'll be using Tilix and the built-in gnome-terminal in Linux. See the links in the Resources section below for details on how to install and use Tilix.

• Access to a text editor (such as Vim or nano) or Visual Studio Code installed.

• (Optional) An AWS account with a separate IAM user (with admin permissions) for lab purposes

Note: !!! Creating infrastructure on AWS or other cloud providers can incur a cost. Do not apply infrastructure if you do not want to be charged. Amazon allows 750 hours of virtual machine usage (per month) on qualifying free tiers at AWS. Make sure that your region and AMI are part of the free tier program. For a pre-cost analysis see this link: https://calculator.aws

• Two or more monitors (or a second system) to display additional resources

Contact information

If you have any questions you can contact me at:

• My website: https://prowse.tech

• Discord server: https://discord.gg/mggw8VGzUp

Note: I also run live webinars on the O'Reilly Platform. Check this link for the latest.

Resources

• VirtualBox:

  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) account setup

  https://aws.amazon.com/account/

• Debian Linux download:

  https://www.debian.org/distrib/

• Tilix terminal multiplexer:

  https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/

  https://prowse.tech/how-i-use-tilix/

• AWS IAM Setup

  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_users_create.html

• Visual Studio Code:

  https://code.visualstudio.com/download