Vault will now register itself with Consul. The active node can be found using `active.vault.service.consul`. All standby vaults are available via `standby.vault.service.consul`. All unsealed vaults are considered healthy and available via `vault.service.consul`. Change in status and registration is event driven and should happen at the speed of a write to Consul (~network RTT + ~1x fsync(2)).
Healthy/active:
```
curl -X GET 'http://127.0.0.1:8500/v1/health/service/vault?pretty' && echo;
[
{
"Node": {
"Node": "vm1",
"Address": "127.0.0.1",
"TaggedAddresses": {
"wan": "127.0.0.1"
},
"CreateIndex": 3,
"ModifyIndex": 20
},
"Service": {
"ID": "vault:127.0.0.1:8200",
"Service": "vault",
"Tags": [
"active"
],
"Address": "127.0.0.1",
"Port": 8200,
"EnableTagOverride": false,
"CreateIndex": 17,
"ModifyIndex": 20
},
"Checks": [
{
"Node": "vm1",
"CheckID": "serfHealth",
"Name": "Serf Health Status",
"Status": "passing",
"Notes": "",
"Output": "Agent alive and reachable",
"ServiceID": "",
"ServiceName": "",
"CreateIndex": 3,
"ModifyIndex": 3
},
{
"Node": "vm1",
"CheckID": "vault-sealed-check",
"Name": "Vault Sealed Status",
"Status": "passing",
"Notes": "Vault service is healthy when Vault is in an unsealed status and can become an active Vault server",
"Output": "",
"ServiceID": "vault:127.0.0.1:8200",
"ServiceName": "vault",
"CreateIndex": 19,
"ModifyIndex": 19
}
]
}
]
```
Healthy/standby:
```
[snip]
"Service": {
"ID": "vault:127.0.0.2:8200",
"Service": "vault",
"Tags": [
"standby"
],
"Address": "127.0.0.2",
"Port": 8200,
"EnableTagOverride": false,
"CreateIndex": 17,
"ModifyIndex": 20
},
"Checks": [
{
"Node": "vm2",
"CheckID": "serfHealth",
"Name": "Serf Health Status",
"Status": "passing",
"Notes": "",
"Output": "Agent alive and reachable",
"ServiceID": "",
"ServiceName": "",
"CreateIndex": 3,
"ModifyIndex": 3
},
{
"Node": "vm2",
"CheckID": "vault-sealed-check",
"Name": "Vault Sealed Status",
"Status": "passing",
"Notes": "Vault service is healthy when Vault is in an unsealed status and can become an active Vault server",
"Output": "",
"ServiceID": "vault:127.0.0.2:8200",
"ServiceName": "vault",
"CreateIndex": 19,
"ModifyIndex": 19
}
]
}
]
```
Sealed:
```
"Checks": [
{
"Node": "vm2",
"CheckID": "serfHealth",
"Name": "Serf Health Status",
"Status": "passing",
"Notes": "",
"Output": "Agent alive and reachable",
"ServiceID": "",
"ServiceName": "",
"CreateIndex": 3,
"ModifyIndex": 3
},
{
"Node": "vm2",
"CheckID": "vault-sealed-check",
"Name": "Vault Sealed Status",
"Status": "critical",
"Notes": "Vault service is healthy when Vault is in an unsealed status and can become an active Vault server",
"Output": "Vault Sealed",
"ServiceID": "vault:127.0.0.2:8200",
"ServiceName": "vault",
"CreateIndex": 19,
"ModifyIndex": 38
}
]
```
No signal handler was setup to receive SIGINT. I didn't investigate to
see if signal(2) mask was setup (ala `SIG_IGN`) or if sigprocmask(2) is
being used, but in either case, the correct behavior is to capture and
treat SIGINT the same as SIGTERM. At some point in the future these two
signals may affect the running process differently, but we will clarify
that difference in the future.
One thing that has been a point of confusion for users is Vault's
response when deleting a key that does not actually exist in the system.
For example, consider:
$ vault delete secret/foo
Success! Deleted 'secret/foo'
This message is misleading if the secret does not exist, especially if
the same command is run twice in a row.
Obviously the reason for this is clear - returning an error if a secret
does not exist would reveal the existence of a secret (the same reason
everything on S3 is a 403 or why GitHub repos 404 instead of 403 if you
do not have permission to view them).
I think we can make the UX a little bit better by adding just a few
words to the output:
$ vault delete secret/foo
Success! Deleted 'secret/foo' if it existed
This makes it clear that the operation was only performed if the secret
existed, but it does not reveal any more information.
This came up twice, in two different training courses. The UX is a
little confusing here on the CLI. Users are used to running:
$ vault auth abcd-1234...
So when they auth using a method, the output leads them to believe the
need to "re-auth" as the generated token:
$ vault auth -method=userpass username=foo password=bar
Successfully authenticated!
token: defg-5678...
A number of users then run:
$ vault auth defg-5678
I've added some helpful text to hint this is not required if the method
is not "token".
Sean Chittenden