Vault Operations Professional - Lab environment issue – Configure DR Replication

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#1

Hi KodeKloud Support,

I’m experiencing what appears to be a lab provisioning issue in the following KodeKloud course:

Course: Lab- HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional 2022
Instructor: Bryan Krausen
Module: HashiCorp Vault Operations Professional Labs
Lab/Lesson: Lab - Configure Disaster Recovery (DR) Replication

Course page:
Lab – HashiCorp Certified: Vault Operations Professional 2022

The issue occurs immediately at Question 1 of 18, before I can begin configuring DR replication.

According to the lab instructions, the initial environment should have:

  • london initialized and unsealed
  • barcelona initialized and unsealed
  • the root token for london stored in /opt/vault.creds

However, the environment does not appear to complete its initialization.

On the london node:

bob@london ~ ➜ vault status Error checking seal status: Get "http://192.168.151.194:8200/v1/sys/seal-status": dial tcp 192.168.151.194:8200: connect: connection refused

The credentials file is created, but it is empty:

bob@london ~ ➜ ls -l /opt/vault.creds -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 9 10:18 /opt/vault.creds bob@london ~ ➜ wc -c /opt/vault.creds 0 /opt/vault.creds

I waited beyond the 1–2 minutes mentioned in the lab instructions.

I then completely restarted/reset the lab and received a new environment, but the exact same issue occurred again: Vault was not available and /opt/vault.creds remained empty.

Could you please check the provisioning/bootstrap process for this particular lab?

I’m happy to provide screenshots or any additional diagnostic output if needed.

#2

OK, that looks all kinds of wrong. I’ll report this to the lab team for fixing.

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#3

The lab team has this one fixed. Thanks for your patience!