Summary
In this chapter, we discussed how Cloud Pak for Data is developed and the IBM secure engineering practices that are employed. We also looked at how container images are delivered from trusted locations for customers to pull from or download.
Once Cloud Pak for Data is installed, care must be taken to ensure that it is operated in a secure manner. We looked at constructs with which RHEL and OpenShift provide a secure foundation for workloads and the security posture of Cloud Pak for Data on OpenShift Container Platform.
We also looked at how administrators are tasked with the responsibility of managing user and group access to ensure authorization is enforced in addition to configuring appropriate identity managers for authentication, as well as defining appropriate roles or modifying out-of-the-box user roles.
Security is critical to any software installation and Cloud Pak for Data is no exception. This chapter, in addition to describing the technology, also provided...
