You're reading from Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide Effectively containerize applications, integrate enterprise systems, and scale applications in your enterprise

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839213403

Length 526 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Marc Boorshtein

Scott Surovich

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Docker and Container Essentials FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Working with Docker Data

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Docker Networking

5. Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services

6. Chapter 4: Deploying Kubernetes Using KinD

7. Chapter 5: Kubernetes Bootcamp

8. Chapter 6: Services, Load Balancing, and External DNS

9. Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

10. Chapter 7: Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster

11. Chapter 8: RBAC Policies and Auditing

12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Secured Kubernetes Dashboard

13. Chapter 10: Creating PodSecurityPolicies

14. Chapter 11: Extending Security Using Open Policy Agent

15. Chapter 12: Auditing using Falco and EFK

16. Chapter 13: Backing Up Workloads

17. Chapter 14: Provisioning a Platform

18. Assessments

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Chapter 10: Creating PodSecurityPolicies

Most of the security discussed so far has focused on protecting Kubernetes APIs. Authentication has meant the authentication of API calls. Authorization has meant authorizing access to certain APIs. Even the discussion on the dashboard centered mostly around how to securely authenticate to the API server by way of the dashboard.

This chapter will be different as we will now shift our focus to securing our nodes. We will learn how PodSecurityPolicies (PSPs) protect the nodes of a Kubernetes cluster. Our focus will be on how containers run on the nodes of your cluster and how to keep those containers from having more access than they should. We'll get into the details of impacts in this chapter by looking at how exploits can be used to gain access to a cluster when the nodes aren't protected. We'll also explore how these scenarios can be exploited even in code that doesn't need node access.

In this chapter, we will...