Spring Boot 3 — Manage Secrets using HashiCorp Vault and PostgreSQL as Backend: Part 2

In the previous story, we had configured a Hashicorp Vault server.
In this story, we’ll explain how to manage vault secrets with a Spring Boot application.

· Prerequisites
· Create the KV Secrets Engine
∘ What is the KV secrets engine?
∘ Creating a Secret using the Vault Web UI
· Let’s code
∘ Spring Cloud Vault
∘ Spring Boot App
∘ Configure application.yml
∘ Accessing Secrets in Spring Boot
· Test the REST APIs
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites for Part 2:

• Spring Boot 3+
• Maven 3.6.3
• Java 21
• Postman / insomnia or any other API testing tool.
• All steps in Part 1 must be completed

Create the KV Secrets Engine

After following all the vault installation and configuration steps described in Part…