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docs	GCP Cloud KMS - Seals - Configuration	docs-configuration-seal-gcpckms	The GCP Cloud KMS seal configures Vault to use GCP Cloud KMS as the seal wrapping mechanism.

gcpckms Seal

The GCP Cloud KMS seal configures Vault to use GCP Cloud KMS as the seal wrapping mechanism. Vault Enterprise's GCP Cloud KMS seal is activated by one of the following:

• The presence of a seal "gcpckms" block in Vault's configuration file.
• The presence of the environment variable VAULT_SEAL_TYPE set to gcpckms. If enabling via environment variable, all other required values specific to Cloud KMS (i.e. VAULT_GCPCKMS_SEAL_KEY_RING, etc.) must be also supplied, as well as all other GCP-related environment variables that lends to successful authentication (i.e. GOOGLE_PROJECT, etc.).

gcpckms Example

This example shows configuring GCP Cloud KMS seal through the Vault configuration file by providing all the required values:

seal "gcpckms" {
  credentials = "/usr/vault/vault-project-user-creds.json"
  project     = "vault-project"
  region      = "global"
  key_ring    = "vault-keyring"
  crypto_key  = "vault-key"
}

gcpckms Parameters

These parameters apply to the seal stanza in the Vault configuration file:

• credentials (string: <required>): The path to the credentials JSON file to use. May be also specified by the GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS or GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable or set automatically if running under Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine or Google Container Engine.

• project (string: <required>): The GCP project ID to use. May also be specified by the GOOGLE_PROJECT environment variable.

• region (string: "us-east-1"): The GCP region/location where the key ring lives. May also be specified by the GOOGLE_REGION environment variable.

• key_ring (string: <required>): The GCP CKMS key ring to use. May also be specified by the VAULT_GCPCKMS_SEAL_KEY_RING environment variable.

• crypto_key (string: <required>): The GCP CKMS crypto key to use for encryption and decryption. May also be specified by the VAULT_GCPCKMS_SEAL_CRYPTO_KEY environment variable.

Authentication

Authentication-related values must be provided, either as enviroment variables or as configuration parameters.

GCP authentication values:

* `GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS` or `GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`
* `GOOGLE_PROJECT`
* `GOOGLE_REGION`

Note: The client uses the official Google SDK and will use the specified credentials, environment credentials, or application default credentials in that order, if the above GCP specific values are not provided.

gcpckms Environment Variables

Alternatively, the GCP Cloud KMS seal can be activated by providing the following environment variables:

* `VAULT_SEAL_TYPE`
* `VAULT_GCPCKMS_SEAL_KEY_RING`
* `VAULT_GCPCKMS_SEAL_CRYPTO_KEY`