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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-29441

Hashicorp Vault key management plugin little docs improvement

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      I would really appreciate if you added a very trivial documentation bit, that costed me hours and hours of walls headbutting.

      Use case:

      • user is new to MariaDB (my own case)
      • user wants to encrypt the database with the Hashicorp Vault key management plugin.

      I installed MariaDB, but I did not find anywhere in the documentation that the Hashicorp Vault key management shared library / plugin has to be installed separately, from where and how to do it.

      Basically, somewhere in the Hashicorp Vault key management plugin documentation, please add some text like:

      The Hashicorp Vault key management plugin does not come installed by default".
      You have to install it by issuing the following command:

      apt install mariadb-plugin-hashicorp-key-management

      (The above, of course, is for Ubuntu etc., add yum statements etc.)

      Thank you. I really wish I knew this simple info before spending hours wondering why the server did not start and why the plugin was not present.

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            greenman Ian Gilfillan
            dfumagalli Dario Fumagalli
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