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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure Automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209671
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nills Franssens Nills Franssens
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Gunther Lenz Gunther Lenz
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Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface Section 1: The Basics
1. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes FREE CHAPTER 2. Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) Section 2: Deploying on AKS
3. Application deployment on AKS 4. Building scalable applications 5. Handling common failures in AKS 6. Securing your application with HTTPS and Azure AD 7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application Section 3: Leveraging advanced Azure PaaS services
8. Connecting an app to an Azure database 9. Connecting to Azure Event Hubs 10. Securing your AKS cluster 11. Serverless functions Index

6. Securing your application with HTTPS and Azure AD

HTTPS has become a necessity for any public-facing website. Not only does it improve the security of your website, but it is also becoming a requirement for new browser functionalities. HTTPS is a secure version of the HTTP protocol. HTTPS makes use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates to encrypt traffic between an end user and a server, or between two servers. TLS is the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The terms TLS and SSL are often used interchangeably.

In the past, you needed to buy certificates from a certificate authority (CA), then set them up on your web server, and then renew them periodically. While that is still possible today, the Let's Encrypt service and helpers in Kubernetes make it very easy to set verified TLS certificates in your cluster. Let's Encrypt is a non-profit organization run by the Internet Security Research Group and backed by multiple companies. It...

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