How vault auto init works

[sandeepsharmadevops]

Hi Kelsey,

Hope you are doing well!!!

I have been following your youtube videos, blogs to know the practices to be followed on different aspects specifically on container world.

Recently i was evaluating the vault auto unseal feature where i have consul as its storage backend and AWS KMS for auto unseal integration, both consul and vault are running as container workload on k8s platform. I was able to evaluate auto unseal correctly. Post this i was looking about the vault auto init, as i was performing it manually during initial setup. After some googling i landed up on your github repo, i read about it but didn't get it completely. It would be very helpful for me if you can spare some time and share your expert guidance to me in same.

1. process of vault auto init
2. how to retrieve the master and recovery keys

Pointing to the relevant available document is also helpful.

Thanks in advance
Sandeep