Using the Vault UI web interface

One of the interesting features of Vault is that, apart from the client-side tool that allows you to perform all operations on the Vault server, Vault has a UI web interface that allows you to manage secrets but more visually and graphically.

To open and use the Vault web interface to visualize the secrets that we have created with the client tool, we must follow these steps:

  1. In a browser, enter the URL provided when starting the server, that is, http://127.0.0.1:8200/ui, which is the default local Vault URL.
  2. In the authentication form, enter the token that was provided in the Terminal in the root token information, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the Sign In button to authenticate:

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