Tips and tricks

The following section lists some questions, problems, and tips.

Login to the Vault web UI

To login to the Vault web UI, you can use the root token, or any configured authentication backend.

Can changing the vault CR delete the Vault instance and data?

Bank-Vaults never ever deletes the Vault instance from the cluster. However, if you delete the Vault CR, then the Kubernetes garbage controller deletes the vault pods. You are recommended to keep backups.

Set default for vault.security.banzaicloud.io/vault-addr

You can set the default settings for vault.security.banzaicloud.io/vault-addr so you don’t have to specify it in every PodSpec. Just set the VAULT_ADDR in the env section of your values.yaml file.