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Introduction

Overview of the Kubernetes API and Security Features

  • Access to HTTPS endpoints, Kubernetes API, nodes, and containers
  • Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization features

Understanding Cluster Attack Vectors

  • How attackers locate your etcd port, Kubernetes API, and other services
  • Methods hackers use to execute code inside your containers
  • Techniques for privilege escalation by attackers
  • Case study: Analysis of how Tesla exposed its Kubernetes cluster

Setting up Kubernetes

  • Selecting an appropriate distribution
  • Installing Kubernetes

Using Credentials and Secrets

  • The credential lifecycle
  • Understanding secrets
  • Distributing credentials securely

Controlling Access to the Kubernetes API

  • Encrypting API traffic with TLS
  • Implementing authentication for API servers
  • Implementing authorization for various roles

Managing User and Workload Capabilities

  • Understanding Kubernetes policies
  • Limiting resource usage
  • Restricting container privileges
  • Controlling network access

Controlling access to nodes

  • Separating workload access

Protecting Cluster Components

  • Restricting access to etcd
  • Disabling unnecessary features
  • Changing, removing and revoking credentials and tokens

Securing Container Images

  • Managing Docker and Kubernetes images
  • Building secure images

Controlling Access to Cloud Resources

  • Understanding cloud platform metadata
  • Limiting permissions to cloud resources

Evaluating Third Party Integrations

  • Minimizing the permissions granted to third party software
  • Evaluating components that can create pods

Establishing a Security Policy

  • Reviewing the existing security profile
  • Creating a security model
  • Cloud native security considerations
  • Other best practices

Encrypting Inactive Data

  • Encrypting backups
  • Encrypting the entire disk
  • Encrypting secret resources in etcd

Monitoring Activity

  • Enabling audit logging
  • Auditing and governing the software supply chain
  • Subscribing to security alerts and updates

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • Previous experience working with Kubernetes

Target Audience

  • DevOps engineers
  • Developers
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