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Learn Kubernetes Security

Learn Kubernetes Security: Securely orchestrate, scale, and manage your microservices in Kubernetes deployments

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Chapter 1: Kubernetes Architecture

Traditional applications, such as web applications, are known to follow a modular architecture, splitting code into an application layer, business logic, a storage layer, and a communication layer. Despite the modular architecture, the components are packaged and deployed as a monolith. A monolith application, despite being easy to develop, test, and deploy, is hard to maintain and scale. This led to the growth of microservices architecture. Development of container runtimes like Docker and Linux Containers (LXC) has eased deployment and maintenance of applications as microservices.

Microservices architecture splits application deployment into small and interconnected entities. The increasing popularity of microservices architecture has led to the growth of orchestration platforms such as Apache Swarm, Mesos, and Kubernetes. Container orchestration platforms help manage containers in large and dynamic environments.

Kubernetes is an open source...

The rise of Docker and the trend of microservices

Before we start looking into Kubernetes, it's important to understand the growth of microservices and containerization. With the evolution of a monolithic application, developers face inevitable problems as the applications evolve:

  • Scaling: A monolith application is difficult to scale. It's been proven that the proper way to solve a scalability problem is via a distributed method.
  • Operational cost: The operation cost increases with the complexity of a monolith application. Updates and maintenance require careful analysis and enough testing before deployment. This is the opposite of scalability; you can't scale down a monolithic application easily as the minimum resource requirement is high.
  • Longer release cycle: The maintenance and development barrier is significantly high for monolith applications. For developers, when there is a bug, it takes a lot of time to identify the root cause in a complex and...

Kubernetes components

Kubernetes follows a client-server architecture. In Kubernetes, multiple master nodes control multiple worker nodes. Each master and worker has a set of components that are required for the cluster to work correctly. A master node generally has kube-apiserver, etcd storage, kube-controller-manager, cloud-controller-manager, and kube-scheduler. The worker nodes have kubelet, kube-proxy, a Container Runtime Interface (CRI) component, a Container Storage Interface (CRI) component, and so on. We will go through each of them in detail now:

  • kube-apiserver: The Kubernetes API server (kube-apiserver) is a control-plane component that validates and configures data for objects such as pods, services, and controllers. It interacts with objects using REST requests.
  • etcd: etcd is a high-availability key-value store used to store data such as configuration, state, and metadata. The watch functionality of etcd provides Kubernetes with the ability to listen for updates...

Kubernetes objects

The storage and compute resources of the system are classified into different objects that reflect the current state of the cluster. Objects are defined using a .yaml spec and the Kubernetes API is used to create and manage the objects. We are going to cover some common Kubernetes objects in detail.

Pods

A pod is a basic building block of a Kubernetes cluster. It's a group of one or more containers that are expected to co-exist on a single host. Containers within a pod can reference each other using localhost or inter-process communications (IPCs).

Deployments

Kubernetes deployments help scale pods up or down based on labels and selectors. The YAML spec for a deployment consists of replicas, which is the number of instances of pods that are required, and template, which is identical to a pod specification.

Services

A Kubernetes service is an abstraction of an application. A service enables network access for pods. Services and deployments work...

Kubernetes variations

In the Kubernetes ecosystem, Kubernetes is the flagship among all variations. However, there are some other ships that play very important roles. Next, we will introduce some Kubernetes-like platforms, which serve different purposes in the ecosystem.

Minikube

Minikube is the single-node cluster version of Kubernetes that can be run on Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. Minikube supports standard Kubernetes features, such as LoadBalancer, services, PersistentVolume, Ingress, container runtimes, and developer-friendly features such as add-ons and GPU support.

Minikube is a great starting place to get hands-on experience with Kubernetes. It's also a good place to run tests locally, especially cluster dependency or working on proof of concepts.

K3s

K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes platform. Its total size is less than 40 MB. It is great for Edge, Internet of Things (IoT), and ARM, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine...

Kubernetes and cloud providers

A lot of people believe that Kubernetes is the future of infrastructure, and there are some people who believe that everything will end up on the cloud. However, this doesn't mean you have to run Kubernetes on the cloud, but it does work really well with the cloud.

Kubernetes as a service

Containerization makes applications more portable so that locking down with a specific cloud provider becomes unlikely. Although there are some great open source tools, such as kubeadm and kops, that can help DevOps create Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes as a service offered by a cloud provider still sounds attractive. As the original creator of Kubernetes, Google has offered Kubernetes as a service since 2014. It is called Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In 2017, Microsoft offered its own Kubernetes service, called Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). AWS offered Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in 2018.

Kubedex (https://kubedex.com/google-gke-vs-microsoft...

Summary

The trend of microservices and the rise of Docker has enabled Kubernetes to become the de facto platform for DevOps to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. Kubernetes abstracts storage and computing resources as Kubernetes objects, which are managed by components such as kube-apiserver, kubelet, etcd, and so on.

Kubernetes can be created in a private data center or on the cloud or hybrid. This allows DevOps to work with multiple cloud providers and not get locked down to any one of them. Although Kubernetes is in GA as of 2018, it is still young and evolving very fast. As Kubernetes gets more and more attention, the attacks targeted at Kubernetes also become more notable.

In the next chapter, we are going to cover the Kubernetes network model and understand how microservices communicate with each other in Kubernetes.

Questions

  1. What are the major problems of monolith architecture?
  2. What are Kubernetes' master components?
  3. What is deployment?
  4. What are some variations of Kubernetes?
  5. Why do we care about Kubernetes' security?

Further reading

The following links contain more detailed information about Kubernetes, kops, and the OpenShift platform. You will find them useful when starting to build a Kubernetes cluster:

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Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for managing containerized applications. Despite widespread adoption of the technology, DevOps engineers might be unaware of the pitfalls of containerized environments. With this comprehensive book, you'll learn how to use the different security integrations available on the Kubernetes platform to safeguard your deployments in a variety of scenarios. Learn Kubernetes Security starts by taking you through the Kubernetes architecture and the networking model. You'll then learn about the Kubernetes threat model and get to grips with securing clusters. Throughout the book, you'll cover various security aspects such as authentication, authorization, image scanning, and resource monitoring. As you advance, you'll learn about securing cluster components (the kube-apiserver, CoreDNS, and kubelet) and pods (hardening image, security context, and PodSecurityPolicy). With the help of hands-on examples, you'll also learn how to use open source tools such as Anchore, Prometheus, OPA, and Falco to protect your deployments. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of container security and be able to protect your clusters from cyberattacks and mitigate cybersecurity threats.

Who is this book for?

This book is for security consultants, cloud administrators, system administrators, and DevOps engineers interested in securing their container deployments. If you're looking to secure your Kubernetes clusters and cloud-based deployments, you'll find this book useful. A basic understanding of cloud computing and containerization is necessary to make the most of this book.

What you will learn

  • Understand the basics of Kubernetes architecture and networking
  • Gain insights into different security integrations provided by the Kubernetes platform
  • Delve into Kubernetes threat modeling and security domains
  • Explore different security configurations from a variety of practical examples
  • Get to grips with using and deploying open source tools to protect your deployments
  • Discover techniques to mitigate or prevent known Kubernetes hacks
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Section 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Kubernetes Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Kubernetes Networking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Threat Modeling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege in Kubernetes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Configuring Kubernetes Security Boundaries Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Securing Kubernetes Deployments and Clusters Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Securing Cluster Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Authentication, Authorization, and Admission Control Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Securing Kubernetes Pods Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Image Scanning in DevOps Pipelines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Real-Time Monitoring and Resource Management of a Kubernetes Cluster Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Defense in Depth Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Learning from Mistakes and Pitfalls Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Analyzing and Detecting Crypto-Mining Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Learning from Kubernetes CVEs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I am evaluating the book from its technical value and merits, This is a very rich book that covers almost all of Linux Foundation new CKS exam topics. it is a must have if you are serious about taking the CKS exam, or you are into a career or journey of Kubernetes security. Kaizhe is a security practitioner working in an innovative cloud native security company. thank you Pranjal Jumde and Kaizhe for a great book, its a space that needs to be filled. most people are worried about how can they run K8s in production if they do not cover security, this is one answer.
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