This assumes the following has already been done.

• Hashicorp Vault has been installed
• Hashicorp Vault has been initialized
• Hashicorp Vault has been unsealed
• You have logged into the vault

The vault enable secrets command can be used to enable the secrets engine and set the directory to where secrets will reside. In this example, the commonly used secret/ directory will be set as the directory where secrets will reside.

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