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Kubernetes Security: Lack of Centralized Enforcement Policies

Gupta Bless
6 min readSep 17, 2022

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Introduction

As a result of the fact that the majority of firms are adopting cloud architecture or utilizing the hybrid approach, in which some organizations set up on cloud computing while others set up on physical infrastructure. The architecture is moving toward a distributed system at this point, and it calls for a significant number of microservices. These microservices can be executed by employing containers, and as a result, it is necessary to use a management solution such as Kubernetes. Utilization of cloud computing resources boosts the value of Kubernetes in the context of this distributed infrastructure. Nevertheless, security is always a worry, regardless of whether the infrastructure in question is hosted in the cloud or a hybrid environment. However, the duty of businesses increases significantly when those environments or resources are used for production.

In Kubernetes, the majority of the tasks, if not all of the tasks, are processed through the API and other management tools; but, in order for us to effectively manage the cluster, we need to apply a wide variety of policies across the organization. In Kubernetes, the deployment of containers and the operation of services are both significantly impacted by the policies that are applied. We are all aware that in Kubernetes, any work can be…

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Gupta Bless
Gupta Bless

Written by Gupta Bless

Security enthusiast working to secure web for others.

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