Vault Server Requirements

[vaultqu...@gmail.com]

I'm looking to stand up a virtual machine to run Vault, does anybody have any suggestions for server specs (memory, storage, etc.)? Also, has anyone in this group used vault in this capacity, where they are host the service on a separate machine for key management?

[Jeff Mitchell]

Vault's resident RAM requirements are pretty minimal, so I would
imagine if not much else is running 384MB or 512MB should be fine. An
(idle) unsealed Vault server running in dev mode is consuming about
18MB on my system.

Like many servers, it depends on your usage. The more requests you
need to handle at once, the more memory you'll need (but it won't
scale up drastically). Storage requirements depend on which storage
backend you are planning to use and how you're going to use Vault; I
can say that the requirements when using the "generic" backend should
be drastically lower in the soon-to-be-released 0.3 due to leases
being removed from this backend.

Using Vault on a separate machine is a totally reasonable scenario --
you can lock that machine down however you like regardless of how the
rest of your infrastructure is configured.

--Jeff

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[vaultqu...@gmail.com]

This is great information Jeff, thanks a lot! Have you been working with Vault long? I'm just getting into it and it looks promising so far.

[Jeff Mitchell]

Yes, I've been working with it quite a bit! Please feel free to post
further questions...

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