Authenticate services to HashiCorp Vault with AppRole and keep tokens fresh

domain: hashicorp-vault · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Enable approle auth; create role with policies + secret_id TTLs
  2. App: POST /v1/auth/approle/login with role_id + secret_id → client token
  3. Renew the token before TTL (POST /v1/auth/token/renew-self) or re-login
  4. Use response-wrapped secret_ids delivered by the orchestrator (CI injects, app unwraps)

Known gotchas

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