Hashicorp Vault 101: Installing Vault on Ubuntu 18.04 in three easy steps.

Hashicorp Vault 101 is a series of posts that is aimed towards becoming a zero to hero in Vault.

Installing Vault on Ubuntu

Vault, just like many other tools from Hashicorp is present on multiple Operating Systems &Platforms. Below are the steps used to install Hashicorp Vault on Ubuntu

curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vault

Verify if vault is installed

Check if vault is installed on the machine

chrisedrego@chrisedregobox:~$ vault -v
Vault v1.8.2 (aca76f63357041a43b49f3e8c11d67358496959f)