Hashicorp on The IT Hollow

Use Hashicorp's Vault to Dynamically Create Mysql Credentials

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:26:01 +0000

Passwords are a necessary evil to keep bandits from running away with your confidential data. We’ve come up with various strategies to manage these secrets, such as:

Using one password for all of your stuff so you don’t forget it.
Use a password vault to store a unique password for each of your logins.
Use a few passwords in a pattern you can remember.
Write down your password on a sticky note and attach it to your monitor.

Now, not all of these practices are good but you get the idea.

Using Hashicorp Consul to Store Terraform State

Mon, 21 May 2018 14:05:16 +0000

Hashicorp’s Terraform product is very popular in describing your infrastructure as code. One thing that you need consider when using Terraform is where you’ll store your state files and how they’ll be locked so that two team members or build servers aren’t stepping on each other. State can be stored in Terraform Enterprise (TFE) or with some cloud services such as S3. But if you want to store your state, within your data center, perhaps you should check out Hashicorp’s Consul product.