diff --git a/apps/base/cephrgw-system/kustomization.yaml b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/kustomization.yaml
index c3558d4..8087c3e 100644
--- a/apps/base/cephrgw-system/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/kustomization.yaml
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ resources:
   - https://git.unkin.net/unkin/cephrgw-operator/raw/tag/v0.1.0/config/crd/install.yaml
   - rbac.yaml
   - deployment.yaml
+  - vaultauth.yaml
+  - vaultstaticsecret.yaml
diff --git a/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultauth.yaml b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultauth.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ceb64b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultauth.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+apiVersion: secrets.hashicorp.com/v1beta1
+kind: VaultAuth
+metadata:
+  name: default
+  namespace: cephrgw-system
+spec:
+  method: kubernetes
+  mount: k8s/au/syd1
+  vaultConnectionRef: vso-system/default
+  allowedNamespaces:
+    - cephrgw-system
+  kubernetes:
+    # Shared "default" role: binds the namespace's default ServiceAccount and
+    # grants the templated kv/kubernetes/namespace/<ns>/<sa>/* read policy, so
+    # no per-app terraform-vault change is needed.
+    role: default
+    serviceAccount: default
+    audiences:
+      - vault
+    tokenExpirationSeconds: 600
diff --git a/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultstaticsecret.yaml b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultstaticsecret.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..142cc74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/base/cephrgw-system/vaultstaticsecret.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+# Renders the Ceph dashboard credentials from Vault into the cephrgw-credentials
+# Secret the operator Deployment consumes via envFrom. The KV secret's keys
+# (CEPH_DASHBOARD_URL/USERNAME/PASSWORD, optional CEPH_RGW_ENDPOINT/CA) are
+# copied verbatim, so they land as the matching env vars.
+#
+# The path sits under the templated default policy
+# (kv/data/kubernetes/namespace/<ns>/<sa>/*), so it needs no dedicated Vault
+# role or policy. Seed the values with:
+#   vault kv put kv/kubernetes/namespace/cephrgw-system/default/cephrgw-credentials \
+#     CEPH_DASHBOARD_URL=... CEPH_DASHBOARD_USERNAME=... CEPH_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=...
+apiVersion: secrets.hashicorp.com/v1beta1
+kind: VaultStaticSecret
+metadata:
+  name: cephrgw-credentials
+  namespace: cephrgw-system
+spec:
+  vaultAuthRef: default
+  mount: kv
+  type: kv-v2
+  path: kubernetes/namespace/cephrgw-system/default/cephrgw-credentials
+  refreshAfter: 5m
+  hmacSecretData: true
+  destination:
+    name: cephrgw-credentials
+    create: true
+    overwrite: true