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Kubernetes in Production Best Practices

You're reading from   Kubernetes in Production Best Practices Build and manage highly available production-ready Kubernetes clusters

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202450
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aly Saleh Aly Saleh
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Murat Karslioglu Murat Karslioglu
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Infrastructure and Production-Readiness 2. Chapter 2: Architecting Production-Grade Kubernetes Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Provisioning Kubernetes Clusters Using AWS and Terraform 4. Chapter 4: Managing Cluster Configuration with Ansible 5. Chapter 5: Configuring and Enhancing Kubernetes Networking Services 6. Chapter 6: Securing Kubernetes Effectively 7. Chapter 7: Managing Storage and Stateful Applications 8. Chapter 8: Deploying Seamless and Reliable Applications 9. Chapter 9: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability 10. Chapter 10: Operating and Maintaining Efficient Kubernetes Clusters 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Bonus security tips

These are some general security best practices and tips that did not fit under any of the previous sections. However, I find them to be useful:

  1. Always keep Kubernetes updated to the latest version.
  2. Update worker AMIs to the latest version. You have to be cautious because this change could introduce some downtime, especially if you are not using a managed node group.
  3. Do not run Docker in Docker or mount the socket in a container.
  4. Restrict the use of hostPath or, if hostPath is necessary, restrict which prefixes can be used and configure the volume as read-only.
  5. Set requests and limits for each container to avoid resource contention and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
  6. Whenever possible, use an optimized operating system for running containers.
  7. Use immutable infrastructure, and automate the rotation of the cluster worker nodes.
  8. You should not enable the Kubernetes dashboard.
  9. Enable AWS VPC Flow Logs to capture metadata about...
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