This assumes the following has already been done.

• Hashicorp Vault has been installed
• Hashicorp Vault has been initialized
• Hashicorp Vault has been unsealed

Let's say the secrets engine has been enabled with -path=secret/

~]# vault secrets enable -path=secret/ kv
Success! Enabled the kv secrets engine at: secret/

And let's say approle has been enabled and there is a role named "my-role" and contains a policy named "my-policy".

~]$ vault read auth/approle/role/my-role
Key                        Value
---                        -----
policies                   [my-policy]

In this example, since the secrets engine has been enabled with -path=secret/ the policy path will need to begin with secret/

Let's say "my-policy" permits the following capabilities to "secret/my_path/*".

~]$ vault policy read my-policy
path "secret/my_path/*" {
  capabilities = ["create", "delete", "list", "patch", "read", "update"]
}

Before deleting a secret, the vault kv list command can be used to list the secrets that have been created. In this example, there are two secrets, one named "foo" and another named "bar".

~]# vault kv list secret/
Keys
----
foo
bar

Let's say you want to delete the secret named "foo". The vault kv delete command can be used.

~]# vault kv delete secret/foo
Success! Data deleted (if it existed) at: secret/foo