bao(1)

✨ bao(1) — the manual, but make it slay ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to bao 💖 it's a command line tool and it lives in the General Commands Manual, section 1. Let's get into it.

🎀 NAME 🎀

bao — securely access secrets 🔐✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bao <command> [args]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, bao is the command line tool you use to talk to an OpenBao service, which is a whole powerful service for securely accessing secrets. it's giving vault, but make it open 👑

and if you're ever like "wait what does this do??" — just run the bao help command and it'll spill all the details of its operation for you. no gatekeeping 🫶

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

to actually communicate with the OpenBao service, you need this environment variable set, fr fr:

• BAO_ADDR — the URL you use to contact the bao service. example: http://localhost:8200. there's also an equivalent for backward compatibility to Hashicorp Vault, and that one is VAULT_ADDR. 💖

ngl, without this one set you're just yelling into the void. set it. periodt.

and that's the whole vibe check 🧚 from the General Commands Manual, bao(1) — go off and access those secrets securely, bestie 💜🌈⭐