Hello there, we published a new tutorial collection for Consul that will help you introduce Vault in your datacenter deployment and help with secret management. In the tutorials you will find detailed steps for: Automatically Rotate Gossip Encryption Keys Secured in Vault Generate mTLS Certifica…

One question: what about the initial encrypt parameter in the configuration file? To enable gossip on a new datacenter, you will add the encryption key parameter to the agent configuration file and then pass the file at startup with the -config-dir flag. Is this obsolete, and if not, if the prim…

You can either configure the initial encryption key in the configuration file under the encrypt parameter in configuration or using the -encrypt CLI flag. That is used to join the gossip pool at first startup and in a default configuration setting will be ignored once the key gets rotated, meaning …

New Learn Collection: Secure Consul with Vault Integrations

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Wolfsrudel December 11, 2020, 10:27am 5

Thanks for your detailed explanation!

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New Learn Collection: Secure Consul with Vault Integrations

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