Adding secured clusters

Secured cluster is the term used to refer to a cluster under ACS management. ACS Central works as a control plane where you will create the policies and visualize violations, compliance, and all the features that we will walk through later in this chapter; while an ACS secured cluster is a set of ACS processes (AdmissionControl, Scanner, Sensor, and Collector) that run on managed clusters to monitor and enforce policies.

Figure 12.14 – ACS Central/secured cluster

The process of adding secured clusters on ACS Central comprises the following steps:

1. Generate an init bundle on ACS Central.
2. Run the init bundle.
3. Create a SecuredCluster custom resource in the ACS operator.

To perform the previous steps and add a secured cluster, run the following steps in ACS Central:

1. Access the Platform Configuration | Integrations menu:

Figure 12.15 – Generating an init bundle

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