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Install Vault
Vault must first be installed on your machine. Vault is distributed as a binary package for all supported platforms and architectures. This page will not cover how to compile Vault from source, but compiling from source is covered in the documentation for those who want to be sure they're compiling source they trust into the final binary.
Installing Vault
To install Vault, find the appropriate package for your system and download it. Vault is packaged as a zip archive.
After downloading Vault, unzip the package. Vault runs as a single binary
named vault. Any other files in the package can be safely removed and
Vault will still function.
The final step is to make sure that the vault binary is available on the PATH.
See this page
for instructions on setting the PATH on Linux and Mac.
This page
contains instructions for setting the PATH on Windows.
Verifying the Installation
After installing Vault, verify the installation worked by opening a new
terminal session and checking that the vault binary is available. By executing
vault, you should see help output similar to the following:
$ vault
Usage: vault <command> [args]
Common commands:
read Read data and retrieves secrets
write Write data, configuration, and secrets
delete Delete secrets and configuration
list List data or secrets
login Authenticate locally
server Start a Vault server
status Print seal and HA status
unwrap Unwrap a wrapped secret
Other commands:
audit Interact with audit devices
auth Interact with auth methods
lease Interact with leases
operator Perform operator-specific tasks
path-help Retrieve API help for paths
policy Interact with policies
secrets Interact with secrets engines
ssh Initiate an SSH session
token Interact with tokens
If you get an error that the binary could not be found, then your PATH
environment variable was not setup properly. Please go back and ensure that your
PATH variable contains the directory where Vault was installed.
Otherwise, Vault is installed and ready to go!
Command Completion
Vault also includes command-line completion for subcommands, flags, and path arguments where supported. To install command-line completion, you must be using Bash or ZSH. Unfortunately other shells are not supported at this time.
To install completions, run:
$ vault -autocomplete-install
This will install the helpers in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc automatically.
Then restart your terminal or reload your shell:
$ exec $SHELL
Now when you type vault <tab>, Vault will suggest options. This is very
helpful for beginners and advanced Vault users.
Next
Now Vault is installed we can start our first Vault server! Let's do that now.