# Democratic CSI using FreeNAS API
To have this running, you first need to configure your truenas scale

- Turn iSCSI service on
- Create a portal and an initiator group (note their ID)
- Create an API key

Then, store the API key in vault

- Store the API key in vault
```
vault kv put kv/service/democratic-csi truenas_api_key=XXXXX
```