Managing Keys
Create and manage vault keys and key versions.
For information about creating vault keys with your own key material, see Importing Vault Keys and Key Versions. For information about assigning keys to protect supported resources, see Assigning Master Encryption Keys. For information about how you can use keys in cryptographic operations, see Using Keys. For information about backing up and restoring keys, see Backing Up and Restoring Vaults and Keys. For information about what you can do with vaults where you store keys, see Managing Vaults. For more information, see Key and Secret Management Concepts.
Managing vault keys include the following configurations:
- Create a key
- View key details
- View a list of keys
- View a list of key versions for a specific key
- Enable keys for use in vault cryptographic operations
- Rotate keys to generate vault cryptographic material
- Disable keys to prevent their usage in vault cryptographic operations
- Delete keys to permanently prevent their usage in vault cryptographic operations or assignment to resources
- Move a key to a new compartment
For enhanced control and visibility over your vault encryption keys, the External Key Management (EKM) feature in Vault enables you to manage your keys in a third-party key management system outside of Oracle cloud. To enable EKM in your tenancy, contact Oracle sales.
Required IAM Policy
If you're new to policies, see Managing Identity Domains and Common Policies.
Tagging Keys
Apply tags to resources to help organize them according to your business needs. You can apply tags when you create a resource, and you can update a resource later to add, revise, or remove tags. For general information about applying tags, see Resource Tags.
Monitoring Resources
This section describes how to monitor your Vault resources.
You can monitor your vault resources.
Moving Resources to a Different Compartment
Learn how to move Vault resources such as keys to different compartment.
You can move keys from one compartment to another. After you move a key to a new compartment, inherent policies apply immediately and affect access to the key and key versions. Moving a key doesn't affect access to the vault that a key is associated with. Similarly, you can move a vault from one compartment to another independently of moving any of its keys. For more information, see Managing Compartments.