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+title = "Vault Agents"
+date = 2026-06-02
+description = "Setting up vault-agents for my servers"
+draft = true
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+[taxonomies]
+categories = ["Homelab"]
+tags = ["Homelab", "Vault"]
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+My journey to setting up vault-agents on my servers to handle dynamic secrets in configurations.
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+# Configuring Vault Itself
+We first need to setup vault such that the vault agents can authenticate to vault itself.
+
+# Deploying Vault Agents
+TODO
+Testing
+
+# Using them to template Configs
+A couple of examples how I am going to use the vault agents templating features
+
+## Nomad mTLS
+We can use vault agents to template the TLS certificates for nomads mTLS configuration.
+1. Get all currently valid CA certificates and store them in the trust bundle
+2. Get a leaf certificate for the current node
+
+## Consul ACLs
+To configure the ACL tokens for consul
+
+# References
+[^vault_pki_api]: [Vault PKI API](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/secret/pki)
+[^consul_template_secrets]: [Consul Template Secrets](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-template/blob/main/docs/templating-language.md#secret)
+[^vault_agent_templates]: [Vault Agent Templates](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/agent-and-proxy/agent/template)
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