Vault Secrets Management

Sets up HashiCorp Vault for secrets and credential management

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Created 8 months ago
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#cloud-config
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true

packages:
  - wget
  - unzip
  - jq

users:
  - name: vault
    system: true
    shell: /bin/false
    home: /opt/vault

write_files:
  - path: /etc/vault.d/vault.hcl
    content: |
      ui = true
      
      storage "file" {
        path = "/opt/vault/data"
      }
      
      listener "tcp" {
        address     = "0.0.0.0:8200"
        tls_disable = 1
      }
      
      api_addr = "http://127.0.0.1:8200"
      cluster_addr = "https://127.0.0.1:8201"
    permissions: '0640'
    owner: vault:vault

  - path: /etc/systemd/system/vault.service
    content: |
      [Unit]
      Description=Vault
      Documentation=https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/
      Requires=network-online.target
      After=network-online.target
      ConditionFileNotEmpty=/etc/vault.d/vault.hcl
      StartLimitIntervalSec=60
      StartLimitBurst=3

      [Service]
      Type=notify
      User=vault
      Group=vault
      ProtectSystem=full
      ProtectHome=read-only
      PrivateTmp=yes
      PrivateDevices=yes
      SecureBits=keep-caps
      AmbientCapabilities=CAP_IPC_LOCK
      Capabilities=CAP_IPC_LOCK+ep
      CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYSLOG CAP_IPC_LOCK
      NoNewPrivileges=yes
      ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vault server -config=/etc/vault.d/vault.hcl
      ExecReload=/bin/kill --signal HUP $MAINPID
      KillMode=process
      KillSignal=SIGINT
      Restart=on-failure
      RestartSec=5
      TimeoutStopSec=30
      LimitNOFILE=65536
      LimitMEMLOCK=infinity

      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

runcmd:
  # Download and install Vault
  - cd /tmp
  - wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vault/1.15.0/vault_1.15.0_linux_amd64.zip
  - unzip vault_1.15.0_linux_amd64.zip
  - mv vault /usr/local/bin/
  - chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vault
  # Create directories
  - mkdir -p /opt/vault/data
  - mkdir -p /etc/vault.d
  - chown -R vault:vault /opt/vault /etc/vault.d
  # Set capabilities
  - setcap cap_ipc_lock=+ep /usr/local/bin/vault
  # Enable and start Vault
  - systemctl enable vault
  - systemctl start vault
  # Configure firewall
  - ufw allow 8200/tcp
  - sleep 10
  # Initialize Vault (manual step required)
  - echo "Run 'vault operator init' to initialize Vault"

How to Use This Script

Cloud Provider Examples

Amazon EC2

aws ec2 run-instances
  --image-id ami-12345678
  --instance-type t3.micro
  --user-data file://script.yaml

DigitalOcean

doctl compute droplet create
  --image ubuntu-22-04-x64
  --size s-1vcpu-1gb
  --user-data-file script.yaml
  my-droplet

Google Cloud

gcloud compute instances create
  my-instance
  --metadata-from-file
  user-data=script.yaml