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Kubernetes Security

Official docs outline

12 sections
  1. Security Overview

    Kubernetes security concepts overview.

  2. Cloud Native Security

    The 4Cs: cloud, cluster, container and code.

  3. Security Checklist

    Baseline checklist for cluster security.

  4. Controlling Access to the API

    Authentication, authorization and admission stages.

  5. Service Accounts

    Workload identities and token projection.

  6. API Server Bypass Risks

    Kubelet, etcd and proxy paths that bypass API controls.

  7. Linux Kernel Security Constraints

    Seccomp, AppArmor, SELinux and capabilities.

  8. Multi-tenancy

    Tenant isolation models.

  9. Admission Controllers

    Built-in admission plugins.

  10. ValidatingAdmissionPolicy

    CEL-based in-tree policy enforcement.

  11. Encrypting Data at Rest

    Encrypting API data in etcd.

  12. Auditing

    Kubernetes audit policy and backends.

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