Mock is an example secrets engine plugin for HashiCorp Vault. It is meant for demonstration purposes only and should never be used in production.
All commands can be run using the provided Makefile. However, it may be instructive to look at the commands to gain a greater understanding of how Vault registers plugins. Using the Makefile will result in running the Vault server in dev mode. Do not run Vault in dev mode in production. The dev server allows you to configure the plugin directory as a flag, and automatically registers plugin binaries in that directory. In production, plugin binaries must be manually registered.
This will build the plugin binary and start the Vault dev server:
# Build Mock plugin and start Vault dev server with plugin automatically registered
$ make
Now open a new terminal window and run the following commands:
# Open a new terminal window and export Vault dev server http address
$ export VAULT_ADDR='http://127.0.0.1:8200'
# Enable the Mock plugin
$ make enable
# Write a secret to the Mock secrets engine
$ vault write mock-secrets/test hello="world"
Success! Data written to: mock/test
# Retrieve secret from Mock secrets engine
$ vault read mock-secrets/test
Key Value
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hello world
Mock was contributed to the HashiCorp community by hasheddan. In doing so, the original license has been removed.