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Certified Vault Operations Professional – A Complete Guide Specialization
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Certified Vault Operations Professional – A Complete Guide Specialization

Master HashiCorp Vault Operations and Security. Learn how to configure Vault secrets engines, manage disaster recovery, and scale Vault for high performance and security in real-world environments.

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Intermediate level

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at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Gain expertise in configuring and managing various Vault secrets engines, such as Key/Value and Transit.

  • Learn how to set up disaster recovery (DR) replication and fault-tolerant Vault environments.

  • Master Vault policies and access control configurations, including namespaces and Sentinel policies.

  • Understand how to scale Vault for high performance and optimize its security and availability.

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What you'll learn

  • Understand how to configure and manage HashiCorp Vault’s various secrets engines securely

  • Gain practical skills in enabling authentication methods like AppRole, Userpass, and Vault Tokens.

  • Learn how to harden Vault’s security by applying techniques such as auto-unsealing and integrated storage.

  • Master best practices for Vault initialization, encryption key rotation, and root token regeneration.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Integrated storage configuration
Category: Managing PKI certificates with Vault
Category: Secrets management and encryption
Category: Key/Value, Database, and Transit Secrets Engines
Category: HashiCorp Vault configuration

What you'll learn

  • Monitor Vault environments using telemetry, audit logs, and operational logs.

  • Implement and manage high-availability (HA) Vault clusters with fault-tolerance.

  • Enhance Vault security with Kubernetes integration and HSM-based auto-unsealing.

  • Configure disaster recovery (DR) replication and secondary cluster promotion.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kubernetes integration with Vault
Category: Disaster Recovery (DR) replication in Vault
Category: High availability (HA) cluster configuration
Category: Telemetry and audit log management
Category: Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration

What you'll learn

  • Scale Vault using batch tokens, performance standby nodes, and replication.

  • Configure advanced access controls with policies, namespaces, and control groups.

  • Automate authentication and secret retrieval with Vault Agent.

  • Prepare for the Vault certification exam with expert insights and guidance.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Batch token usage
Category: Vault Agent templating for dynamic configuration
Category: Vault performance scaling
Category: Vault Agent configuration (Auto-Auth, Token Sink)
Category: Vault access control with policies and identity entities

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