Securing Confluent’s Infrastructure with HashiCorp Vault

This post details Confluent's decision to use HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, its setup using Banzai Cloud's Vault operator on Kubernetes with an HA Postgres backend, and HA testing using the Slapper load-testing framework. It also discusses configuring Vault programmatically using Golang/REST for new post-setup configurations like creating AppRoles, contrasting it with Terraform.