Spring Vault3.1.2

Introduction

Spring Vault provides familiar Spring abstractions and client-side support for accessing, storing and revoking secrets. It offers both low-level and high-level abstractions for interacting with Vault, freeing the user from infrastructural concerns.

With HashiCorp’s Vault you have a central place to manage external secret data for applications across all environments. Vault can manage static and dynamic secrets such as application data, username/password for remote applications/resources and provide credentials for external services such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, Consul, AWS and more.

Features

• Spring configuration support using Java based @Configuration classes.

• VaultTemplate helper class that increases productivity performing common Vault operations. Includes integrated object mapping between documents and POJOs.

• Supported authentication mechanisms:

  • Token
  • AppRole
  • AWS EC2 and IAM
  • AWS-IAM
  • Azure MSI
  • Client Certificates (PKI)
  • Cubbyhole
  • GCP GCE and IAM
  • JWT
  • Kubernetes
  • Pivotal CloudFoundry
  • Username/Password

• Annotation-based @VaultPropertySource integration

• Support for Vault's Secret Engines: Support for renewable and rotating secrets

• Feature Rich Object Mapping integrated with Spring’s Conversion Service

• Annotation-based mapping metadata but extensible to support other metadata formats

• Repositories: Automatic implementation of Repository interfaces including support for custom query methods.