Vault.md

Vault

List directories in vault

vault list <path_to_dir>

Read a particular leaf directories' secrets

vault read <path_to_secret>

Write multiple keys to vault in one line

vault write <path_to_secret> "key1": "value1" "key2": "value2"

Write the contents of a JSON file to vault

cat vaultsecrets.json | vault write <path_to_secret> -
Example JSON to write to vault (vaultsecrets.json):
{
  "key1": "value1",
  "key2": "value2"
}

or

Write directly from a file (@ notation to reference file)
vault write <path_to_secret> @vaultsecrets.json

Read secret and decode from base64 at the same time

vault read -field=<field_name_inside_secret> <path_to_secret> | base64 -D