Uncomplicating Technology
Uncomplicating Technology
Today’s video outlines how to configure Openfiler and continues where I left off from the installing OpenFiler video. This article assumes that you have already already installed Openfiler. For instructions on how to do that see our video on installing openfiler. **Note: This information came from a previous site of ours, so the information may …
This article is content I migrated from a previous site I had created. The information may be a bit out of date In this video I explain where to get Citrix Xenserver and how to install it. I use a Virtualbox Virtual Machine in my demonstration, however you would not want to run Xenserver in …
As there are a variety of tasks you may need to achieve, there are many different ways to connect to your storage system. Each operating system has differing methods for utilizing these protocols, and different operating systems will perform differently with each protocol. For the purpose of this article we are going to focus on …
This is content I migrated from a previous website, so some of the information is a little out of date. But the overall processes should still be the same. Virtual Box is a very simple virtual machine package which can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Solaris. It is open source, so you can …
The best practices for Hashicorp Vault are to destroy your default root token after you have finished the initial setup of Vault. However, you will still find times when you need a new root token for certain advanced functions. This article describes how to create a new root token using your vault unseal keys. Instructions …
There are many authentication methods for vault. This article descibes how to configure LDAP authentication and Userpass Authentication LDAP Authentication: The following command will configure LDAP to point at a domain controller named mydomaincontroller.mydomain.com. It will then search the search base for groups to the top of mydomain.com domain: vault write auth/ldap/config url=”ldap://mydomaincontroller.mydomain.com:389″ userattr=sAMAccountName userdn=“dc=mydomain,dc=com” …
After the Hashicorp Vault service has been restarted, the password vault is in a sealed state. This means that the encryption keys are not in memory, and the encrypted database on the disk cannot be read. More on this topic can be read here: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/seal.html This article will discuss the process for unsealing and re-keying …
This article will describe how to read and write secrets to Vault using the vault CLI and CURL. These instructions are assuming you are on either Linux or Mac OSX. Later we will add instructions for windows. That said, most of the Vault CLI commands should work fine on windows as well. Before you can …
Hashicorp Vault has a variety of ways to access it. You can access it via a CLI client, via the rest API/CURL, and via a third party GUI client. This article will discuss how to set up the CLI and one of the 3rd party GUI’s available on Github. Installing the CLI Client Vault has …
