You're reading from Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide Effectively containerize applications, integrate enterprise systems, and scale applications in your enterprise

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213403

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Marc Boorshtein

Scott Surovich

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Docker and Container Essentials FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Docker Data

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Docker Networking

5. Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services

6. Chapter 4: Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD

7. Chapter 5: Kubernetes Bootcamp

8. Chapter 6: Services, Load Balancing, and External DNS

9. Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

10. Chapter 7: Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster

11. Chapter 8: RBAC Policies and Auditing

12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard

13. Chapter 10: Creating PodSecurityPolicies

14. Chapter 11: Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent

15. Chapter 12: Auditing using Falco and EFK

16. Chapter 13: Backing Up Workloads

17. Chapter 14: Provisioning a Platform

18. Assessments

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Chapter 7: Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster

Once a cluster has been built, users will need to interact with it securely. For most enterprises, this means authenticating individual users and making sure they can only access what they need in order to do their jobs. With Kubernetes, this can be challenging because a cluster is a collection of APIs, not an application with a frontend that can prompt for authentication.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to integrate enterprise authentication into your cluster using the OpenID Connect protocol and Kubernetes impersonation. We'll also cover several anti-patterns and explain why you should avoid using them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: