Understanding Kubernetes Secrets Management
This chapter will provide you with a refresher about containers, as well as a comprehensive overview of Kubernetes and its Secrets management implementation. By the end of this first walk-through, all personas (developers, platform, and security engineers) will know how to design and implement these topics with a set of hands-on examples. While going through these examples, we will highlight the respective security concerns that this book will address by covering a series of use cases that will lead to a production-grade solution for hybrid multi-cloud scenarios, including the business continuity perspective.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding Kubernetes’ origins and design principles
- Setting up our first Kubernetes testing environment
- Exploring Kubernetes
SecretandConfigMapobjects - Analyzing why Kubernetes Secrets are important
- Unveiling the challenges and risks associated...
