Installation tutorial for Vaults on Fedora CoreOS Latest

Introduction

Vaults is a useful tool for securely managing credentials and secrets in any environment. In this tutorial, we will be guiding you through the steps required to install Vaults from its source code on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS.

Prerequisites

  • A machine running the latest version of Fedora CoreOS
  • An internet connection

Step 1: Install Git

We need Git to clone the Vaults repository from GitHub. To install Git, open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo dnf install git

Step 2: Clone the Vaults repository

Use the git clone command to clone the Vaults repository from GitHub. In a terminal, enter the following command:

git clone https://github.com/MatrixEternal/vaults.git

Step 3: Install the required dependencies

Vaults requires several dependencies to function properly. To install them, navigate to the cloned Vaults repository directory:

cd ./vaults/

Next, run the following command to install the dependencies:

sudo dnf install go dep

Step 4: Install GO Language

Vaults is written in the Go programming language, so we need to install it before we can build and install Vaults.

To install GO, run the following command:

sudo dnf install golang

Step 5: Build Vaults

After installing the required dependencies, navigate to the cmd/vaults directory in the cloned Vaults repository:

cd ./cmd/vaults/

Then, build Vaults using the following command:

go build

Step 6: Install Vaults

Finally, to install Vaults on your Fedora CoreOS machine, run the following command:

sudo mv ./vaults /usr/local/bin/

Step 7: Verify the installation

To verify that Vaults was installed successfully, you can run the vaults command in a terminal:

vaults

If the installation was successful, you should see the following output:

Vaults is a utility for securely storing and accessing secrets and passwords.

Usage:
  vaults [flags]
  vaults [command]

...

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install and set up Vaults on the latest version of Fedora CoreOS. Vaults is now available for you to use to securely manage yours or your organization's secrets!