HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional Online Course
This comprehensive course is designed to help you confidently prepare for and pass the HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional exam. Through a mix of conceptual lessons and hands-on labs, you’ll develop the skills needed to answer exam questions and perform real-world tasks on Vault nodes and clusters with clarity and confidence.
What You'll Learn
- Vault Server Configuration: Build and configure Vault servers for a variety of deployment scenarios.
- Monitoring: Learn how to effectively monitor Vault environments to ensure reliability and performance.
- Security Model: Apply Vault’s security model to protect sensitive data and manage access.
- High Availability: Design and implement fault-tolerant Vault architectures to handle disruptions.
- HSM Integration: Enhance security by integrating Hardware Security Modules with Vault.
- Performance Scaling: Scale your Vault setup to support growing workloads and traffic.
- Access Control: Configure fine-grained access controls to manage permissions securely.
- Vault Agent: Automate workflows by setting up and managing the Vault Agent.
Key Benefits
- Expert Guidance: Learn from a certified HashiCorp instructor and recognized ambassador for Vault, Consul, and Terraform.
- Hands-On Practice: Gain real-world experience through interactive labs and quizzes using Vault version 1.10 and above.
- Targeted Preparation: Follow a well-structured, exam-focused curriculum covering all key topics and objectives.
Skills You'll Gain
- Set up and configure Vault for multiple use cases
- Monitor and secure your Vault infrastructure
- Design resilient, high-availability Vault systems
- Integrate Vault with HSMs
- Optimize and scale Vault for high performance
- Configure secure access controls and automate with Vault Agent
Course Outline
The HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional Online Course covers following topics -
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
- Introduction
- HashiCorp Documentation Review
Chapter 2: Create a Working Vault Server Configuration Given a Scenario
- Enable and Configure Secrets Engine
- Key/Value Secrets Engine (Demo: Versions 1 & 2)
- Database Secrets Engine (Demo)
- Identity Secrets Engine (Demo)
- Transit Secrets Engine (Demo)
- PKI Secrets Engine (Demo)
- Cubbyhole Secrets Engine (Demo)
- Vault Security Hardening
- Auto Unsealing Vault (Demo)
- Implementing Integrated Storage (Demo & Snapshots)
- Enable and Configure Auth Methods
- AppRole Auth Method (Demo)
- Userpass Auth Method (Demo)
- Vault Tokens - Auth Method
- Secure Vault Initialization (Demo)
- Regenerating a Root Token (Demo)
- Rekey Vault and Rotate Encryption Keys (Demo)
Chapter 3: Monitor a Vault Environment
- Monitor and Understand Telemetry
- Monitor and Understand Audit Logs (Demo)
- Monitor and Understand Operational Logs (Demo)
Chapter 4: Employ the Vault Security Model
- Secure Introduction of Vault Clients
- Running Vault in Kubernetes
Chapter 5: Build Fault-Tolerant Vault Environments
- Configure a Highly Available Vault Cluster (Demo: Manual, Retry_Join, Auto_Join)
- Enable and Configure Disaster Recovery (DR) Replication (Demo)
- Promote a Secondary Cluster (Demo)
Chapter 6: Understand the Hardware Security Module (HSM) Integration
- Benefits of Auto Unsealing with HSM
- Benefits and Use Cases of Seal Wrapping
Chapter 7: Scale Vault for Performance
- Using Batch Tokens (Demo)
- Performance Standby Nodes
- Enable and Configure Performance Replication (Demo)
- Create a Paths Filter (Demo)
Chapter 8: Configure Access Control
- Vault Identity Entities and Groups
- Vault Policies (Part 1 & 2)
- Understand Sentinel Policies
- Control Groups
- Vault Namespaces (Demo)
Chapter 9: Configure Vault Agent
- Vault Agent Auto-Auth and Token Sink
- Vault Agent Templating (Demo)
Chapter 10: Exam Experience and Expectations
- Exam Experience and Expectations