Manage users and policies
Learn how to manage Piiano Vault users, roles, access policies, and authentication options
In this guide, you'll learn about how identity and access management users, roles and policies are represented in the API, how to set IAM configuration, and how to get current IAM configuration. You'll also learn how to regenerate user API key or authenticate a JWT access token generated by an external identity provider.
📄️ How IAM work
Learn about Piiano Vault's identity and access management (IAM), the feature Vault uses to govern access to APIs and data.
📄️ Update the IAM configuration
Learn how to update the users, roles, and policies of the Piiano Vault IAM configuration using its TOML file from this step-by-step guide.
📄️ Define users
Learn how to define a user with a role as part of the Piiano Vault identity and access management (IAM) configuration.
📄️ Add capabilities to a role
Learn how to add capabilities to a role as part of the Piiano Vault identity and access management (IAM) configuration.
📄️ Define new policies
Learn how to define new Piiano Vault identity and access management (IAM) policies and add them to a role.
📄️ Default IAM configuration
Learn about the content of the default identity and access management (IAM) configuration provided in Piiano Vault.
📄️ IAM configuration use-cases
Learn about configuring identity and access management (IAM) in Piiano Vault for specific use-cases.
📄️ Set the administrative user’s API key
Vault always has an administrative user account, which you use to update the configuration of Vault. Learn how to set that user account's API key.
📄️ Regenerate user API key
Learn how to regenerate a user API key, to enable access to the REST API and CLI, using the CLI iam regen-api-key command.
📄️ Configure JWT authentication
Learn how to create JWT access tokens and configure Vault to authenticate them and provide access to the Piiano Vault REST API.
📄️ IAM examples for JWT
Learn how to configure Vault to authenticate JWT access totems from various identity providers or use symmetric keys.
📄️ Role delegation
Learn what role delegation is in Piiano Vault, its use cases, and how to configure it.