You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

Loose lips sink ships is a phrase that describes how easy it can be to jeopardize the security of a Kubernetes-managed cluster (Kubernetes, by the way, is Greek for helmsman, as in the helmsman of a ship). If your cluster is left open with the wrong ports or services exposed, or plain text is used for secrets in application definitions, bad actors can take advantage of this negligent security and do pretty much whatever they want in your cluster.

There are multiple items to consider when securing an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and workloads running on top of it. In this section, you will learn about four ways to secure your cluster and applications. You will learn about role-based access control in Kubernetes and how this can be integrated with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). After that, you'll learn how to allow your pods to get access to Azure resources such as Blob Storage or Key Vault using an Azure...