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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Large scale container deployment and management

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461001
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters 3. Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting 4. High Availability and Reliability 5. Configuring Kubernetes Security, Limits, and Accounts 6. Using Critical Kubernetes Resources 7. Handling Kubernetes Storage 8. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 9. Rolling Updates, Scalability, and Quotas 10. Advanced Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds and Cluster Federation 12. Customizing Kubernetes - API and Plugins 13. Handling the Kubernetes Package Manager 14. The Future of Kubernetes Index

Chapter 5. Configuring Kubernetes Security, Limits, and Accounts

In Chapter 4, High Availability and Reliability, we looked at reliable and highly available Kubernetes clusters, the basic concepts, the best practices, how to do live cluster upgrades, and the many design trade-offs regarding performance and cost.

In this chapter, we will explore the important topic of security. Kubernetes clusters are complicated systems composed of multiple layers of interacting components. Isolation and compartmentalization of different layers is very important when running critical applications. To secure the system and ensure proper access to resources, capabilities, and data, we must first understand the unique challenges facing Kubernetes as a general-purpose orchestration platform that runs unknown workloads. Then we can take advantage of various security, isolation, and access control mechanisms to make sure the cluster, the applications running on it, and the data are all safe. We will...

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