Kubernetes is API-centric and the API is served through the API server. In this chapter, you’ll follow a typical API request as it passes through various security-related checks.
The chapter is divided as follows:
API security big picture
Authentication
Authorization (RBAC)
Admission control
See Chapter 15 for an in-depth look at the API.
API security big picture
All of the following make CRUD-style requests to the API server (create, read, update, delete):
Operators and developers using kubectl
Pods
Kubelets
Control plane services
Kubernetes-native apps
Figure 14.1 shows the flow of a typical API request passing through the standard checks. The flow is the same, no matter where the request originates.
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