Certificate Authentication

Introduction

Overview of the Kubernetes API and Security Features

• Access to HTTPS endpoints, Kubernetes API, nodes, and containers
• Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization features

How Hackers Attack Your Cluster

• How hackers find your etcd port, Kubernetes API, and other services
• How hackers execute code inside your container
• How hackers escalate their privileges
• Case study: How Tesla exposed its Kubernetes cluster

Setting up Kubernetes

• Choosing a distribution
• Installing Kubernetes

Using Credentials and Secrets

• The credentials life cycle
• Understanding secrets
• Distributing credentials

Controlling Access to the Kubernetes API

• Encrypting API traffic with TLS
• Implementing authentication for API servers
• Implementing authorization for different roles

Controlling User and Workload Capabilities

• Understanding Kubernetes policies
• Limiting resource usage
• Limiting container privileges
• Limiting network access

Controlling access to nodes

• Separating workload access

Protecting Cluster Components

• Restricting access to etcd
• Disabling features
• Changing, removing and revoking credentials and tokens

Securing Container Image

• Managing Docker and Kubernetes images
• Building secure images

Controlling Access to Cloud Resources

• Understanding cloud platform metadata
• Limiting permissions to cloud resources

Evaluating Third Party Integrations

• Minimizing the permissions granted to third party software
• Evaluating components that can create pods

Establishing a Security Policy

• Reviewing the existing security profile
• Creating a security model
• Cloud native security considerations
• Other best practices

Encrypting Inactive Data

• Encrypting backups
• Encrypting the entire disk
• Encrypting secret resources in etcd

Monitoring Activity

• Enabling audit logging
• Auditing and governing the software supply chain
• Subscribing to security alerts and updates

Summary and Conclusion