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Spring Cloud Hashicorp Vault Hello World Example

by They also need access to usernames and passwords to access these resources.

In this tutorial will be using Spring Cloud Config and Hashicorp Vault to manage secrets and protect sensitive data. Hashicorp Vault is a platform to secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting sensitive data and other secrets in a dynamic infrastructure.Using vault we will be retrieving the credentials from the vault key/value store.

If we now start the Spring Boot Application, it will automatically fetch the MySql username and password by making an API call to Vault.