In this article, you will learn how to configure the Vault PKI engine and integrate it with Spring WebFlux. By Piotr Minkowski.
With Vault PKI you can easily generate X.509 certificates signed by the CA. Then your application may get a certificate through a REST API. Its TTL is relatively short. It is unique per each application instance. Also, we can use Spring VaultTemplate to simplify integration with Vault API.
The article content then captures:
- Source code
- Running Vault
- Enable and configure Vault PKI
- Integrating Spring WebFlux with Vault PKI
- Enable Spring WebFlux security
- Testing Spring WebFlux with Vault PKI
Vault allows you to secure, store, and control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys using UI, CLI, or HTTP API. It is a really powerful tool. With Vault, instead of a traditional approach, you can manage your security in a more dynamic, cloud-native way. Good read!
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