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page_title: "Using Vault Provider with STACKIT Secrets Manager"
---
# Using Vault Provider with STACKIT Secrets Manager
## Overview
This guide outlines the process of utilizing the [HashiCorp Vault provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vault) alongside the STACKIT provider to write secrets in the STACKIT Secrets Manager. The guide focuses on secrets from STACKIT Cloud resources but can be adapted for any secret.
## Steps
1. **Configure STACKIT Provider**
```hcl
provider "stackit" {
default_region = "eu01"
}
```
2. **Create STACKIT Secrets Manager Instance**
```hcl
resource "stackit_secretsmanager_instance" "example" {
project_id = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
name = "example-instance"
}
```
3. **Define STACKIT Secrets Manager User**
```hcl
resource "stackit_secretsmanager_user" "example" {
project_id = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
instance_id = stackit_secretsmanager_instance.example.instance_id
description = "Example user"
write_enabled = true
}
```
4. **Configure Vault Provider**
```hcl
provider "vault" {
address = "https://prod.sm.eu01.stackit.cloud"
skip_child_token = true
auth_login_userpass {
username = stackit_secretsmanager_user.example.username
password = stackit_secretsmanager_user.example.password
}
}
```
5. **Define Terraform Resource (Example: Observability Monitoring Instance)**
```hcl
resource "stackit_observability_instance" "example" {
project_id = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
name = "example-instance"
plan_name = "Observability-Monitoring-Medium-EU01"
}
```
6. **Store Secret in Vault**
```hcl
resource "vault_kv_secret_v2" "example" {
mount = stackit_secretsmanager_instance.example.instance_id
name = "my-secret"
cas = 1
delete_all_versions = true
data_json = jsonencode(
{
grafana_password = stackit_observability_instance.example.grafana_initial_admin_password,
other_secret = ...,
}
)
}
```
## Note
This example can be adapted for various resources within the provider as well as any other Secret the user wants to set in the Secrets Manager instance. Adapting this examples means replacing the Observability Monitoring Grafana password with the appropriate value.