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Welcome to Interpop, a popular audio streaming service that has over 30 million users and gets about a million requests per second to its service running on Kubernetes. As Interpop’s new Kubernetes administrator, your task is to secure its Kubernetes cluster, ensuring a more secure connection for end users. You’ll create user accounts with client certificates that allow limited access to the cluster, and you’ll grant different levels of user access with Roles, Bindings, ClusterRoles, and ClusterBindings. You’ll create service accounts that allow users to deploy pods so that developers can run them, and you’ll empower Interpop’s engineers to check what kind of access they have using auth can-I. When you’re done, you’ll have practical experience securing access to Kubernetes with users, certs, groups, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as a solid understanding of Kubernetes security in a production environment.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
book resources
When you start your liveProject, you get full access to the following books for 90 days.
prerequisites
This liveProject is for systems administrators with an intermediate level of knowledge of the Linux command line, YAML, and containers using tools like Docker or CRI-O. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Kubernetes basics
- Familiarity with vim (how to enter insert mode, how to save, and how to close a file in vim)
- Linux command line basics (how to change the directory, modify permissions for files, and copy and move files from one directory to another)
- Kubernetes cluster where you can run Kubernetes
- Deploy and manage Kubernetes resources with kubectl
- Secure Linux applications
- Create deployments, pods, and services in Kubernetes
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn to secure access to Kubernetes, applying the principle of least privilege.
- Create users in Kubernetes
- Generate certs for user authentication
- RBAC, including permissions
- Roles vs. ClusterRoles
- Service accounts
- Verify authentication for users and service accounts
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- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
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- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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