Closes #610 Did a QA pass after reports of some issues with the vault setup. Identified an issue where my local testing was done with 0.20.0, resulting in some errors on 0.21.0 due to dropping --mlock. Also did a few other general tune ups as I ran end-to-ends again using Vault + Systemd instead of vault in dev mode. Staging views in #minio-docs channel
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Enable Server-Side Encryption using Hashicorp Vault in Production Environments
This procedure provides instructions for configuring and enabling Server-Side Encryption using Hashicorp Vault in production environments. Specifically, this procedure assumes the following:
- An existing production-grade Vault deployment
- One or more hosts for deploying KES
- One or more hosts for a new or existing MinIO deployment
Set Up Folder Hierarchy
Create the following folders on the KES and MinIO host machines if they do not already exist:
KES Hosts
mkdir -P |kescertpath|
mkdir -P |kesconfigpath|
MinIO Hosts
mkdir -P |miniocertpath|
This procedure uses these paths in the following steps. If you use different paths, make the necessary modifications for each step to reflect those changes
1) Download KES and Create the Service File
- Download KES
- Create the Service File
2) Generate TLS Certificates for KES and MinIO
Depending on your Vault configuration, you may also need to specify the CA used to sign the KES certificates to the Vault server. See the Hashicorp Vault Configuration Docs for more information. Defer to the client documentation for instructions on trusting a third-party CA.
3) Create the KES and MinIO Configurations
Create the KES Configuration File
Create the configuration file using your preferred text editor. The following example uses
nano
:nano /opt/kes/config.yaml
Set
MINIO_IDENTITY_HASH
to the identity hash of the MinIO mTLS certificate.The following command computes the necessary hash:
kes identity of |miniocertpath|/minio-kes.cert
Replace the
keystore.vault.endpoint
with the hostname of the Vault server(s).Replace
keystore.vault.engine
andkeystore.vault.version
with the path and version of the KV engine used for storing secrets.Replace the
VAULTAPPID
andVAULTAPPSECRET
with the appropriateVault AppRole credentials <minio-sse-vault-prereq-vault>
.Modify the
keystore.vault.tls.ca
value to correspond to the path to the VaultCA (Certificate Authority)
certificate used to sign the Vault TLS keys.
Configure the MinIO Environment File
Modify the MinIO Server environment file for all hosts in the target deployment to include the following environment variables.
MinIO defaults to expecting this file at
/etc/default/minio
. If you modified your deployment to use a different location for the environment file, modify the file at that location.
4) Start KES and MinIO
You must start KES before starting MinIO. The MinIO deployment requires access to KES as part of its startup.
This step uses systemd
for starting and managing both
the KES and MinIO server processes:
- Start the KES Service on All Hosts
- Start the MinIO Server