Zero Trust Architecture in Kubernetes

Conclusion

Kubernetes has quickly become the industry-leading container orchestration platform. Before Kubernetes became popular, most enterprises that were implementing cloud services in their networks and internet-driven applications would install virtual machines without containerization, similar to how they’d run virtual machines on bare-metal servers on premises. The advent of cloud platforms like AWS and Azure gifted enterprises with immense scalability, addressing a lot of infrastructure management woes that are inevitable when dealing with on-premises networks. But scaling the applications inside the scalable hardware resources that the cloud provides was easier said than done.

Kubernetes certainly didn’t invent containerization. Docker has been around since 2013, Solaris Containers beta was released in 2004, and FreeBSD “jails” were a hosting provider’s revolutionary experiment in 2000. But there’s no doubt that Kubernetes has a design that accelerated the adoption of containerization and made it possible for businesses to take full advantage of the power of the cloud.

Kubernetes works well within a zero trust environment. The Kubernetes API has built-in role-based access control (RBAC) and TLS support. Kubernetes has plenty of ways to be integrated into zero trust architecture (ZTA). Kubernetes documentation helps developers learn how to integrate the platform into their security controls, but no security controls will work without deliberately adding them to your ...