Node Security with Gatekeeper
Most of the security discussed so far has focused on protecting Kubernetes APIs. Authentication has meant the authentication of API calls. Authorization has meant authorizing access to certain APIs. Even the discussion on the dashboard centered mostly around how to securely authenticate to the API server by way of the dashboard.
This chapter will be different, as we will now shift our focus to securing our nodes. We will learn how to use the Gatekeeper project to protect the nodes of a Kubernetes cluster. Our focus will be on how containers run on the nodes of your cluster and how to keep those containers from having more access than they should. We’ll go into the details of impacts in this chapter, by looking at how exploits can be used to gain access to a cluster when nodes aren’t protected. We’ll also explore how these scenarios can be exploited even in code that doesn’t need node access.
In this chapter, we will...
