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Kelsey Hightower Demos Auto Unseal for Vault Open Source

Kelsey Hightower, a staff developer advocate at Google, makes a surprise appearance at HashiConf to demo auto unseal for Vault open source and make good on a promise he made on Twitter.

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Kelsey Hightower once claimed on Twitter that he'd wear a Vault shirt for a month if HashiCorp open sourced its auto unseal feature for Vault. After listening to similar community feedback, HashiCorp released the new feature for Vault 1.0 at HashiConf. In this video, Kelsey Hightower makes a surprise appearance to demo the new feature.

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