How to uninitialize an already initialized vault?

Vault
1

After initializing vault via code,Is there anyway to uninitialize the vault ? (i.e.) to set ‘Initialized= “false”’

key, err := client.Sys().Init(res)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal("Error while initializing", err)
	}
	if !status.Initialized {
		log.Fatal("Vault server is not initialized")
	}

Above is the go code used

2

To do that you would shut down the entire Vault cluster and manually erase all data in its storage backend.

3

Can you elaborate on how I can achieve that?

4

I don’t think I can, actually, as much further elaboration would depend on information I do not have, about how exactly your Vault is deployed and managed (e.g. Linux VMs managed by systemd, Kubernetes, etc.) and which Vault storage backend is in use.

Absent that information, I can only rephrase what I said:

  • Shut down your Vault server processes
  • Throw away all your data
  • Continue as if you were deploying Vault from scratch