Enabling KV Secrets Engine

This doc provides steps to create a new KV Secrets Engine on Vault to be used with Axual Platform.

1. Create credentials KV Secrets Engine

  1. Login into the Vault UI with your rootToken

    Vault UI login screen

  2. Open the secrets menu

    Open Secrets Menu

  3. Press the Enable new engine button

  4. Select the KV type for the new engine

    Select Secrets Engine type

  5. Fill the path with credentials

    Create `credetentials` path

  6. Save it

Now you have enabled the credentials KV Secrets engine, let’s use it with Management API.

2. Update mgmt-api Policy

  1. Open the policies menu

    Open Secrets Menu

  2. Select the mgmt-api policy

  3. Press the edit policy button

  4. Add to the existing policy the below content

    path "credentials/*" {
	capabilities = ["read","create","update","delete"]
}

  5. Save it

Now you have made Management API to access the credentials path.