Hello!

Here’s one more snap specially packaged for you

Vault is a tool to manage secrets in a secure way. So all the confinement properties that Ubuntu and snaps provide make it a perfect match. It’s developed by Hashicorp, an amazing free software company that builds a cool set of tools for server infrastructure. So our interest with vault is to get it into the Ubuntu store with a flawless release process, in order to get all the other hashicorp tools following it.

Vault version 0.7 is in the stable channel, so you can get it with:

$ sudo snap install vault

version 0.7.1 is in the candidate channel:

$ sudo snap install vault --candidate

Here is the guide to get started testing: https://gist.github.com/elopio/e8481471a9b3964ccf5bf9f0c09605a9

You will notice that it only documents tests for the dev server. One very important thing to try before release is the server in a more real environment. And many more things to try can be found on the website docs:

Vault by HashiCorp Documentation - Vault by HashiCorp Welcome to the Vault documentation! This documentation is more of a reference guide for all available features and options of Vault. If you're just getting started with Vault, please start with the introduction and getting started guide instead.

Also, just as we did with IPFS, it’s very important to test the update process. After installing from the stable channel:

$ sudo snap refresh vault --candidate

As usual, please let me know how it goes. And if you have questions about vault or snaps, here is also a good place to ask.

Thanks!

pura vida.

(This call for testing started in the mailing list a couple of months ago, updated now for version 0.7.1)