3 Securely storing Secrets

This chapter covers

  • Capturing Kubernetes manifests to store in version control systems
  • Enabling secure secret storage at rest
  • Using Kubernetes Operators to manage Kubernetes resources, including Secrets
  • Incorporating security considerations into Kubernetes package managers
  • Implementing key rotation to improve your security posture

Chapter 2 provided an overview of the key architectural components of a Kubernetes environment as well as the way workloads are deployed and methods for injecting configurations via ConfigMaps and Secrets. But once resources have been added to a Kubernetes cluster, how are they managed? What happens if they were inadvertently removed? It becomes increasingly important for them to be captured ...

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