vault for kubernetes (vault-operator)

Question

I'm trying to find a suitable vault to use for Kubernetes itself and apps that will run on containers. By far many resources point to Hashicorp vault. There exists a vault operator by CoreOS for that but it seems abandoned since April.

We run Kubernetes on AWS with EKS.

Any suggestions what would be possible choices to use? I'm interested a lot to see what are the top choices that are used the most today for this purpose.

Thank you!

Greg

Answer 1

The CoreOS Vault operator is beta as of this writing. I would not recommend using it in prod yet. There's also a Bootsport Vault Operator but doesn't seem to be prod ready either.

IMO, as of now, you are better off running standalone Vault Kubernetes Deployments or a StatefulSet. You can use something like this or this to get yourself started. Note: still use it at your own risk.