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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure - Second Edition
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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure - Second Edition

by Nills Franssens, Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan, Gunther Lenz
May 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
368 pages
6h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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