Appendix — Source Reference
Documentation sources and further reading referenced throughout the learning guide.
HashiCorp Validated Designs — Vault Enterprise
Installation Guide: Architecture; Detailed design; Post-installation configuration.
Administration Guide: Vault organizational concepts; Authentication for people; Authentication for applications; MFA administration; Static secrets management; Secrets Sync management; Dynamic secrets management; PKI certificate management; Key lifecycle management administration; Transit and Transform management; Monitoring and observability; Backup and restore operations; Disaster recovery operations; Performance replication operations; Upgrade procedures.
User Guide: Introduction; PKI certificates; Consume secrets in Kubernetes.
https://developer.hashicorp.com/validated-designs
HashiCorp Validated Patterns
- Integrate Vault with z/OS RACF for secrets management — https://developer.hashicorp.com/validated-patterns/vault/vault-secrets-racf-integration
- Vault as an identity broker for zero trust — https://developer.hashicorp.com/validated-patterns/vault/vault-trusted-identity-brokering
Vault documentation
- Release notes and important changes — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/updates/release-notes
- AppRole best practices — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/approle/approle-pattern
- Kubernetes auth method — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/kubernetes
- Database secrets engine — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases
- KV v2 — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/kv/kv-v2
- Transform concepts — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/concepts/transform
- Tokenization — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/transform/tokenization
- Vault Helm chart — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/deploy/kubernetes/helm
- Vault Secrets Operator — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/deploy/kubernetes/vso
- Vault limits and maximums — https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/internals/limits
Further reading referenced in the units but not reproduced here: the HVD User Guide pages for static secrets, Secrets Sync, dynamic secrets, key lifecycle management, Transit and Transform, and Vault Agent templates; the HVD Administration Guide pages on People and process, Upgrade procedure examples, and Support readiness; the Vault documentation for Sentinel, Login MFA, SPIFFE, PKI External CA, the OS local accounts secrets engine, and the telemetry reference.