Mastering Spring Cloud

Vault backend

I have already mentioned Vault as a tool for securely accessing secrets through a unified interface. In order to enable the Config Server to use that type of backend, you must run it with the Vault profile --spring.profiles.active=vault. Of course, before running the Config Server you need to install and launch the Vault instance. I suggest you use Docker for this. I know that this is our first contact with Docker in this book, and not everyone has knowledge of that tool. I have provided a short introduction to Docker, its basic commands, and use cases in Chapter 14, Docker Support. So, if this is your first contact with that technology, please first take a look at that introduction. For those of you who are familiar with Docker, ...