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Governing Kubernetes
In the previous chapter, we discussed at length different ways to extend Kubernetes, including validating and mutating requests during the admission control phase.
In this chapter, we will learn about the growing role of Kubernetes in large enterprise organizations, what governance is, and how it is applied in Kubernetes. We will look at policy engines, review some popular ones, and then dive deep into Kyverno.
This ties in nicely with the previous chapter because policy engines are built on top of the Kubernetes admission control mechanism.
More and more enterprise organizations put more and more of their proverbial eggs in the Kubernetes basket. These large organizations have severe security, compliance, and governance ...
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