Certified Vault Operations Professional – A Complete Guide

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of HashiCorp Vault and develop skills to configure Vault servers, manage various secrets engines, and secure Vault operations. By the end of the course, you will be able to implement disaster recovery strategies, configure high availability (HA) clusters, and scale Vault for performance. You’ll also learn to manage authentication methods, including AppRole and Userpass, and understand Vault's security hardening strategies. Hands-on demos will provide you with practical experience to tackle real-world challenges in Vault administration. The course covers critical features such as the Key/Value, Database, Transit, and PKI secrets engines, alongside practical use cases. You'll explore how to integrate Vault into Kubernetes environments and manage Vault agents for automated authentication and token management. The course also dives deep into advanced concepts like Vault policies, namespaces, and Sentinel policies to enhance security. This course is designed for IT professionals and system administrators with a solid foundation in IT and security principles, aiming to gain advanced skills in managing and securing Vault environments.