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Keybase Vault Auto-Unseal

In this talk, learn how to automatically unseal Vault clusters within a Keybase team.

When you want to automate the unsealing of your on-premise Vault clusters, how can you securely distribute Shamir unseal keys to the team so you can unseal your Vault when while on-call?

What You'll Learn

In this talk, learn how to automatically unseal Vault clusters within a Keybase team. The example demo uses Keybase.io in an automated Vault on Consul cluster with an Ansible/Vagrant environment to teach and practice.

  • Vagrant (tested on Mac)
  • Consul OSS
  • Vault OSS
  • Keybase (vault operator init, vault unseal, KBFS)
  • Ansible (Brian Shumate's roles, custom roles)
  • Packer (work in progress)

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