Vault provides a command line interface, which may be used for adding new values to the server and reading them from the server. Examples of calling those commands are shown here. However, we have run Vault as a Docker container, so the most convenient way to manage the secrets is through the HTTP API:
$ vault write secret/hello value=world$ vault read secret/hello
The HTTP API is available for our instance of Vault under the http://192.168.99.100:8200/v1/secret address. When calling every method of that API, you need to pass a token as the request header X-Vault-Token. Because we set that value in the VAULT_DEV_ROOT_TOKEN_ID environment parameter while launching a Docker container, it is equal to client. Otherwise, ...
