Chapter 15: Implementing Zero Trust Architecture

Digital transformation is the new paradigm in enterprises. Enterprises are adopting data-driven architectures and using more and more native services in the cloud and, through this, accelerating the development of their products and services. Under this pressure, security has to keep up and be sure that environments, in a lot of cases even mission-critical environments, remain resilient. This is the domain of zero trust.

This chapter explains what zero trust is and why it is important to DevOps. Zero trust assumes that everything is secured inside a corporate network and that includes the DevOps pipelines. Some of the technologies used in zero trust environments are service meshes and microservices, a topic that we will discuss in the final section of this chapter.

After completing this chapter, you will have learned what zero trust means and the impact it has on DevOps. You will have learned how microservices and secure service...