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How does Venafi integrate with HashiCorp Vault?
Venafi publishes a PKI secrets engine plugin for HashiCorp Vault that lets Vault issue certificates backed by Venafi's policy engine instead of (or alongside) Vault's own internal CA.
Once the plugin is enabled and pointed at a TPP zone or policy folder, applications that already use Vault's standard PKI secrets engine API to request a certificate keep using the exact same workflow — the plugin transparently forwards that request through VCert's enrollment logic to Venafi, which applies its own policy checks, routes to the configured CA, and returns the signed certificate back through Vault to the requesting application.
This matters for teams already standardized on Vault as their secrets interface: they get Venafi's centralized visibility, CA-agility, and audit trail without asking application teams to learn a second tool or a different API just for certificates.
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