Description

A practical guide to hardening containers and securing Kubernetes deployments

Description
Security for Containers and Kubernetes provides you with a framework to follow numerous hands-on strategies for measuring, analyzing, and preventing threats and vulnerabilities in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, pods, containers, and Kubernetes clusters.

The book brings together various solutions that can empower agile teams to proactively monitor, safeguard, and counteract attacks, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations across the entire DevOps process. These solutions encompass critical tasks such as reviewing and protecting pods, container clusters, container runtime, authorization policies, addressing container security issues, ensuring secure deployment and migration, and fortifying continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows. Furthermore, the book helps you in developing a robust container security strategy and provides guidance on conducting Kubernetes environment testing. It concludes by covering the advantages of service mesh, DevSecOps methodologies, and expert advice for mitigating misconfiguration during the implementation of containerization and Kubernetes.

By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge and expertise to strengthen the overall security of your container-based applications.

What you will learn
● Understand the risks concerning the container and orchestrator infrastructure.
● Learn how to secure the container stack, the container image process and container registries.
● Learn how to harden your Kubernetes cluster.
● Deep dive into Kubernetes cloud security methodologies.

Who this book is for
This book is for security practitioners, security analysts, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, cloud architects, and individuals involved in containerization and Kubernetes deployment.