You're reading from Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure, Third Edition Use Azure Kubernetes Service to automate management, scaling, and deployment of containerized applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079945

Length 528 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (3):

Gunther Lenz

Nills Franssens

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure – Third Edition

Foreword

Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER

1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

2. Getting started with Azure Kubernetes Service

Section 2: Deploying on AKS

3. Application deployment on AKS

4. Building scalable applications

5. Handling common failures in AKS

6. Securing your application with HTTPS

7. Monitoring the AKS cluster and the application

Section 3: Securing your AKS cluster and workloads

8. Role-based access control in AKS

9. Azure Active Directory pod‑managed identities in AKS

10. Storing secrets in AKS

11. Network security in AKS

Section 4: Integrating with Azure managed services

12. Connecting an application to an Azure database

13. Azure Security Center for Kubernetes

14. Serverless functions

15. Continuous integration and continuous deployment for AKS

Index

Summary

In this chapter, you've continued your exploration of security in AKS. Whereas Chapter 8, Role-based access control in AKS, focused on identities for users, this chapter focused on identities for pods and applications running in pods. You learned about managed identities in Azure and how you can use Azure AD pod-managed identities in Azure to assign those managed identities to pods.

You created a new cluster with the Azure AD pod-managed identities add-on enabled. You then created a new managed identity and linked that to your cluster. In the final section, you gave this identity permissions over a blob storage account and finally verified that pods with the managed identity were able to log in to Azure and download files, but pods without the managed identity couldn't log in to Azure.

In the next chapter, you'll learn more about Kubernetes secrets. You'll learn about the built-in secrets and then also learn how you can securely connect Kubernetes...