You're reading from Learn Kubernetes Security Securely orchestrate, scale, and manage your microservices in Kubernetes deployments

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216503

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

Cloud Security

Authors (2):

Pranjal Jumde

Kaizhe Huang

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Kubernetes

2. Chapter 1: Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Kubernetes Networking

4. Chapter 3: Threat Modeling

5. Chapter 4: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege in Kubernetes

6. Chapter 5: Configuring Kubernetes Security Boundaries

7. Section 2: Securing Kubernetes Deployments and Clusters

8. Chapter 6: Securing Cluster Components

9. Chapter 7: Authentication, Authorization, and Admission Control

10. Chapter 8: Securing Kubernetes Pods

11. Chapter 9: Image Scanning in DevOps Pipelines

12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Monitoring and Resource Management of a Kubernetes Cluster

13. Chapter 11: Defense in Depth

14. Section 3: Learning from Mistakes and Pitfalls

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing and Detecting Crypto-Mining Attacks

16. Chapter 13: Learning from Kubernetes CVEs

17. Assessments

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Summary

In this chapter, we went through a couple of the crypto-mining attacks that occurred over the last two years that brought a lot of attention to the need for securing containerized environments. Then, we showed you how to detect crypto-mining attacks with different open source tools. Last but not the least, we talked about how to defend your Kubernetes clusters against attacks in general by recapping what we discussed in previous chapters.

We hope you understand the core concepts of securing a Kubernetes cluster, which means securing the cluster provisioning, build, deployment, and runtime stages. You should also feel comfortable with starting to use Anchore, Prometheus, Grafana, and Falco.

As we know, Kubernetes is still evolving and it's not perfect. In the next chapter, we're going to talk about some known Kubernetes Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and some mitigations that can protect your cluster against unknown variations. The purpose of the...