To follow along with the hands-on material in this chapter, you must follow the steps in the previous chapter or access the resources from that chapter if anything is ambiguous to you.

In addition to this, you will also be required to have access to an email address to set up the HashiCorp Cloud Vault trial. It will be a 30-day trial, and by the end of this, you will have gained the skills to continue with the product or utilize another product at another vendor, such as Azure AD and Key Vault or GCP and secrets manager. Most of these will have a cost associated with them, and you should review the costs of each for your projected usage before enabling production.

In this chapter, we’ll need a new private repository named GHA.Private.Templates, and we’ll need to set it up for access to be used as a reusable workflow repository. This can be initialized with a README file for now.

We will be stepping through the process of creating everything...