Introduction to the sample project

Accompanying this guide is a Github repository that sets up a simple stack for you to test out the concepts described in this guide. The stack includes:

• Three Vault nodes (vault0, vault1, and vault2).
• Three Consul nodes (consul0, consul1, and consul2).
• A Grafana/InfluxDB server (statsbox).

The project uses HashiCorp Vagrant to set up the entire stack on your laptop, using VirtualBox to host the VM's. You should have at least 16GB of RAM to run the stack.

Once the stack is running, you can unseal Vault, then log in to Grafana and import the sample dashboards. If you want to see how the dashboards look when Vault is under heavy load, I suggest using the Vault load test sister project to generate some traffic to Vault.