[MDEV-29441] Hashicorp Vault key management plugin little docs improvement Created: 2022-09-01  Updated: 2023-07-14  Resolved: 2022-11-29

Status: Closed
Project: MariaDB Server
Component/s: Documentation, Plugins
Fix Version/s: N/A

Type: Task Priority: Minor
Reporter: Dario Fumagalli Assignee: Ian Gilfillan
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: Cloned


 Description   

Feature Request

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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