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Vault Agent Auto-Auth JWT Method

The jwt method reads in a JWT from a file and sends it to the JWT Auth method. Since JWTs often have limited lifetime, it constantly watches for a new JWT to be written, and when found it will immediately ingress this value, delete the file, and use the new JWT to perform a reauthentication.

Configuration

• path (string: required) - The path to the JWT file

• role (string: required) - The role to authenticate against on Vault

• remove_jwt_after_reading (bool: optional, defaults to true) - This can be set to false to disable the default behavior of removing the JWT after it's been read.