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Can I deploy vault-operator with an existing Vault? #2728

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Hey @mianrogue77

The Vault Operator is designed to manage Vault instances that are deployed as custom resources (CRs) in Kubernetes. It watches for Vault CRs and manages the lifecycle of the corresponding Vault instances.

If you have an existing Vault instance that was not deployed as a Vault CR, the Vault Operator will not be able to manage it. The Operator needs the Vault CR to know the desired state of the Vault instance and to react to changes. In this case you would need to migrate your Vault data to a Vault CR that can be managed by the Operator.

In case you are using the Vault CR, that can be managed by the Operator, you will only need to deploy the Operator, since by default it wi…

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