Stop giving root access and start securing your Kubernetes clusters instead
Conference (BEGINNER level)
Dhalia
We've all done it: working on our Kubernetes clusters with "cluster-admin" access, the infamous equivalent of "root". It makes sense when we're just getting started and learning about Pods, Deployments, and Services and we're the only one accessing the clusters anyway; but soon enough, we have entire teams of devs and ops and CI/CD pipelines that require access to our precious clusters and namespaces. Are we going to YOLO and give them our admin certificate, token, or whatever else we use to authenticate? Hopefully not!
In this talk, we're going to look at how to implement users and permissions on a new Kubernetes cluster. First, we'll review various ways to provision users, including certificates and tokens. We'll see examples showing how to provision users in both managed and self-hosted clusters, since the strategies tend to differ significantly. Then, we'll see how to leverage RBAC to give fine-grained permissions to these users.
In this talk, we're going to look at how to implement users and permissions on a new Kubernetes cluster. First, we'll review various ways to provision users, including certificates and tokens. We'll see examples showing how to provision users in both managed and self-hosted clusters, since the strategies tend to differ significantly. Then, we'll see how to leverage RBAC to give fine-grained permissions to these users.
Tiffany Jernigan
www.tiffanyfay.dev
Tiffany is a technology advocate, content creator, and community enabler in the Cloud Native space. She most recently was a senior developer advocate at VMware. She also formerly worked as a software developer and developer advocate at Amazon, Docker, and Intel. Before that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her free time, she likes to travel and dabble in photography. You can find her on Twitter @tiffanyfayj.