In the following tutorial we’ll walk you through provisioning a highly-available Hashicorp Vault and Consul cluster on Kubernetes with TLS. This is an intermediate-level tutorial. It assumes that you have basic working knowledge of Vault, Consul, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Minikube is a tool used to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally. It’s designed to get a cluster up and running quickly so you can start interacting with the Kubernetes API locally.
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