Preface
Welcome to Hacking Kubernetes, a book for Kubernetes practitioners who want to run their workloads securely and safely. At time of writing, Kubernetes has been around for some six years, give or take. There are over one hundred certified Kubernetes offerings available, such as distributions and managed services. With an increasing number of organizations deciding to move their workloads to Kubernetes, we thought we’d share our experiences in this space, to help make your workloads more secure and safe to deploy and operate. Thank you for joining us on this journey, and we hope you have as much fun reading this book and applying what you learn as we had writing it.
In this preface, we will paint a picture of our intended audience, talk about why we wrote the book, and explain how we think you should go about using it by providing a quick content guide. We will also go over some administrative details like Kubernetes versions and conventions used.
About You
To get most out of the book, we assume that you either have a DevOps role, are a Kubernetes platform person, a cloud native architect, a site reliability engineer (SRE), or something related to being a chief information security officer (CISO). We further assume that you’re interested in being hands-on—while we discuss threats and defenses in principle, we try our best to demonstrate them at the same time and point you to tools that can help you.
At this point we also want to make sure you understand that the book you’re ...
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