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# How does Vault-CRD work?

### How the creation workflow works

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A) The Vault-CRD receives event for new Vault resources\
B) Vault-CRD requests secret from HashiCorp Vault\
C) Vault-CRD generates new Kubernetes Secret

### How the updating workflow works

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1\) Vault-CRD has a scheduled task that looks to the Secrets generated by it\
2\) It compares the Kubernetes Secret with the HashiCorp Vault state and updates the Kubernetes Secret if  necessary