Comment 8 for bug 1883242

Here is my personal view.

Using Vault with embedded raft storage is the way to go *for the future* for sure. Because we may want to have Vault even before having MAAS for example to save some secrets into Vault. In that case, bootstrapping Vault by itself is ideal without requiring any external storage.

If the enablement comes in a few weeks, that would be great. But in reality it would take some time. The request here as using consolidated external backend storage such as etcd only is a stop-gap solution as something we can get now. i.e. it's definitely better than the current state but it shouldn't require too much effort.