Case Study: Sky Betting & Gaming recovers deleted Vault secrets with HashiCorp Vault

Sky Betting & Gaming Built Its Secrets Management Backup Strategy To Recover The Unrecoverable, Without Breaking Production Vault

Sky Betting & Gaming, a HashiCorp customer, had been using HashiCorp Vault for years to manage a mix of older KVv1 and newer KVv2 secrets. A user accidentally overwrote a large KVv1 secret in Vault, deleting dozens of values and putting business-critical services at risk before the team could manually rebuild the secret.

HashiCorp’s Vault backup and recovery approach helped Sky Betting & Gaming restore the lost data without disrupting production. They spun up a temporary Vault cluster from a Consul snapshot in Docker, recovered the needed secret from the earlier state, and documented the process for future incidents. The result was a workable recovery path for “unrecoverable” KVv1 mistakes, while also reinforcing better practices such as using KVv2, smaller secrets, audit logs, and stronger user education.

Sky Betting & Gaming

Lucy Davinhart

Senior Automation Engineer