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Kubernetes Secrets Handbook

You're reading from   Kubernetes Secrets Handbook Design, implement, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes Secrets management solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
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ISBN-13 9781805123224
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chen Xi Chen Xi
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Emmanouil Gkatziouras Emmanouil Gkatziouras
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Rom Adams Rom Adams
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Preface 1. Part 1:Introduction to Kubernetes Secrets Management FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes Secrets Management 3. Chapter 2: Walking through Kubernetes Secrets Management Concepts 4. Chapter 3: Encrypting Secrets the Kubernetes-Native Way 5. Chapter 4: Debugging and Troubleshooting Kubernetes Secrets 6. Part 2: Advanced Topics – Kubernetes Secrets in a Production Environment
7. Chapter 5: Security, Auditing, and Compliance 8. Chapter 6: Disaster Recovery and Backups 9. Chapter 7: Challenges and Risks in Managing Secrets 10. Part 3: Kubernetes Secrets Providers
11. Chapter 8: Exploring Cloud Secret Store on AWS 12. Chapter 9: Exploring Cloud Secret Store on Azure 13. Chapter 10: Exploring Cloud Secret Store on GCP 14. Chapter 11: Exploring External Secret Stores 15. Chapter 12: Integrating with Secret Stores 16. Chapter 13: Case Studies and Real-World Examples 17. Chapter 14: Conclusion and the Future of Kubernetes Secrets Management 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Secrets Store CSI Driver

Kubernetes CSI is a standardized interface for Kubernetes that enables us to utilize different storage providers with Kubernetes. Instead of being limited to using the default storage on Kubernetes, we have an interface providing a specification upon which we can build storage drivers. This way we can use several types of storage by implementing a new driver that complies with the CSI interface.

Here are some popular drivers for CSI:

  • AWS Elastic File System
  • Azure File
  • Google Cloud Filestore

This is feasible for several forms of storage and is also applicable to the Secrets storage components provided by the cloud providers.

CSI drivers are provided for secret storage by the cloud providers. Secrets Store CSI Driver is a CSI interface that targets Secrets management. We can use it to mount Secrets on Kubernetes through another form of storage. Instead of consuming Secrets from etcd, thanks to Secrets Store CSI Driver, we can consume...

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