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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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10. Securing your AKS cluster

Loose lips sink ships is a phrase that describes how easy it can be to jeopardize the security of a Kubernetes-managed cluster (Kubernetes, by the way, is Greek for helmsman, as in the helmsman of a ship). If your cluster is left open with the wrong ports or services exposed, or plain text is used for secrets in application definitions, bad actors can take advantage of this negligent security and do pretty much whatever they want in your cluster.

In this chapter, we will explore Kubernetes security in more depth. You will be introduced to the concept of role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes. After that, you will learn about secrets and how to use them. You will first create secrets in Kubernetes itself, ...

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