Infrastructure components in cloud-native environments
In cloud-native environments, various infrastructure components work together to provide the foundation for applications and services. These components include VMs, containers, serverless computing, networking components such as VPCs, subnets, load balancers, and ingress controllers, and storage services such as block storage, object storage, and databases. To effectively implement defense in depth, it is crucial to apply security best practices and the principle of least privilege across each of these components. Let’s begin by understanding the components and their architecture.
Compute components – virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing
VMs, containers, and serverless computing are all popular compute options in cloud-native environments. Each of these options has unique security considerations, and defense in depth should be applied accordingly:
- For VMs, ensure that the host operating...
