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Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

You're reading from   Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes Build, deploy, and manage scalable microservices on Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789805468
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Kubernetes for Developers 2. Getting Started with Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Delinkcious - the Sample Application 4. Setting Up the CI/CD Pipeline 5. Configuring Microservices with Kubernetes 6. Securing Microservices on Kubernetes 7. Talking to the World - APIs and Load Balancers 8. Working with Stateful Services 9. Running Serverless Tasks on Kubernetes 10. Testing Microservices 11. Deploying Microservices 12. Monitoring, Logging, and Metrics 13. Service Mesh - Working with Istio 14. The Future of Microservices and Kubernetes 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hardening your Kubernetes cluster using security best practices

In this section, we will cover various best practices and we'll see how close Delinkcious gets to getting it right.

Securing your images

One of the top priorities is making sure that the images that you deploy to the cluster are secure. There are several good guidelines to follow here.

Always pull images

In the container spec, there is an optional key called ImagePullPolicy. The default is IfNotPresent. There are a few problems with this default, as follows:

  • If you use tags such as latest (you shouldn...
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