Installing the Vault secrets operator

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.22+
• Vault 1.11+ or HCP Vault

Installation using helm

The Vault Secrets Operator Helm chart is the recommended way of installing and configuring the Vault Secrets Operator.

To install a new instance of the Vault Secrets Operator, first add the HashiCorp helm repository and ensure you have access to the chart:

$ helm repo add hashicorp https://helm.releases.hashicorp.com
"hashicorp" has been added to your repositories

$ helm search repo hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator
NAME            CHART VERSION   APP VERSION DESCRIPTION
hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator    0.1.0           0.1.0       Official HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator Chart

Then install the Operator:

$ helm install --create-namespace --namespace vault-secrets-operator vault-secrets-operator hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator --version 0.1.0

Upgrading using helm

Upgrades may be performed with helm upgrade on an existing install. Please always run Helm with --dry-run before any install or upgrade to verify changes.

Helm chart values

All supported Helm chart values can be found here