Evolving Spring Vault: Introducing VaultClient
Back in September 2016, nearly a decade ago now, we introduced Spring Vault as a integration layer for HashiCorp Vault within Spring applications, complemented by Spring Cloud Vault for Spring Boot arrangements. The core idea has always been straightforward: Externalizing secrets to encrypted Vault storage to reduce application-side complexity considerably, especially by leveraging Vault's secure primitives for communication and authentication.
VaultTemplate and its reactive counterpart ReactiveVaultTemplate have served us well, providing a familiar Java-based programming interface for…