Securing Confluent’s Infrastructure with HashiCorp Vault

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This post introduces Confluent's implementation of HashiCorp Vault for secrets management. It details the setup process using Banzai Cloud's Vault operator on Kubernetes, backend configuration with HA Postgres on GKE, and HA testing methodologies using the Slapper load testing framework. It also provides examples of Golang programs for programmatic Vault configuration, such as creating AppRoles, and discusses the coexistence with Terraform for configuration management.