HashiCorp Certified - Vault Associate Course - Lab—Unsealing with Transit Auto Unseal

The video tutorial demonstrates how to use the Transit Auto Unseal feature in Vault. It covers setting up a transit cluster, creating necessary keys and policies, and configuring another cluster to use the transit unseal mechanism. The tutorial includes testing and verification of the setup, ensuring the clusters are correctly configured to automatically unseal using the transit method.

What is the primary purpose of using the Transit Auto Unseal feature in Vault?

• To manage user access policies

• To automatically unseal Vault using another cluster

• To backup Vault data

• To encrypt data at rest

What is the first step in setting up the Transit Secrets Engine on the transit cluster?

• Create a new policy

• Enable the Transit Secrets Engine

• Configure the network settings

• Generate a root token

Which command is used to create a new encryption key in the transit cluster?

• vault policy write

• vault secrets enable

• vault write -f

• vault token create

What is the purpose of creating a policy in the transit cluster?

• To define user roles

• To manage network access

• To encrypt data

• To authorize the other cluster to use the unseal key

What parameter is added to the configuration file of the other Vault cluster to specify the transit cluster's address?

• token

• key_name

• address

• mount_path

Which command is used to initialize the Vault cluster?

• vault secrets enable

• vault operator init

• vault status

• vault login

What type of keys do you receive when using the auto unseal mechanism?

• Root keys

• Recovery keys

• Unseal keys

• Encryption keys

After configuring transit auto unseal, what should the Vault status indicate?

• Sealed

• Error

• Unsealed

• Pending

What is the final step to verify the setup of the transit auto unseal?

• Write and read data

• Restart the server

• Enable a new secrets engine

• Create a new token

What command is used to write data to a KV store in Vault?

• vault write

• vault kv put

• vault read

• vault kv get