You're reading from Learn Kubernetes Security Securely orchestrate, scale, and manage your microservices in Kubernetes deployments

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216503

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Cloud Security

Authors (2):

Pranjal Jumde

Kaizhe Huang

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Networking

4. Chapter 3: Threat Modeling

5. Chapter 4: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege in Kubernetes

6. Chapter 5: Configuring Kubernetes Security Boundaries

7. Section 2: Securing Kubernetes Deployments and Clusters

8. Chapter 6: Securing Cluster Components

9. Chapter 7: Authentication, Authorization, and Admission Control

10. Chapter 8: Securing Kubernetes Pods

11. Chapter 9: Image Scanning in DevOps Pipelines

12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Monitoring and Resource Management of a Kubernetes Cluster

13. Chapter 11: Defense in Depth

14. Section 3: Learning from Mistakes and Pitfalls

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing and Detecting Crypto-Mining Attacks

16. Chapter 13: Learning from Kubernetes CVEs

17. Assessments

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Introducing the CNI and CNI plugins

In Kubernetes, CNI stands for the Container Network Interface. CNI is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project—you can find further information on GitHub here: https://github.com/containernetworking/cni. Basically, there are three things in this project: a specification, libraries for writing plugins to configure network interfaces in Linux containers, and some supported plugins. When people talk about the CNI, they usually make reference to either the specification or the CNI plugins. The relationship between the CNI and CNI plugins is that the CNI plugins are executable binaries that implement the CNI specification. Now, let's look into the CNI specification and plugins at a high level, and then we will give a brief introduction to one of the CNI plugins, Calico.