To get the most out of this book

Before starting this book, we expect you to have a basic understanding of Kubernetes. While reading this book, we expect you to look at Kubernetes with a security mindset. This book has a lot of examples of hardening and securing Kubernetes workload configurations and components. In addition to trying out the examples, you should also reason about how these examples map to different use cases. We discuss how to use different open source tools in this book. We hope you spend more time understanding the features provided by each tool. Diving deep into different features provided by the tools will help you understand how to configure each tool for different environments:

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying/pasting of code.