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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

By : Marc Boorshtein, Scott Surovich
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Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide - Second Edition

By: Marc Boorshtein, Scott Surovich

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has taken the world by storm, becoming the standard infrastructure for DevOps teams to develop, test, and run applications. With significant updates in each chapter, this revised edition will help you acquire the knowledge and tools required to integrate Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise environment. The book introduces you to Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, including a review of basic Kubernetes objects. You’ll get to grips with containerization and understand its core functionalities such as creating ephemeral multinode clusters using KinD. The book has replaced PodSecurityPolicies (PSP) with OPA/Gatekeeper for PSP-like enforcement. You’ll integrate your container into a cloud platform and tools including MetalLB, externalDNS, OpenID connect (OIDC), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Falco, and Velero. After learning to deploy your core cluster, you’ll learn how to deploy Istio and how to deploy both monolithic applications and microservices into your service mesh. Finally, you will discover how to deploy an entire GitOps platform to Kubernetes using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Mapping enterprise identities to Kubernetes to authorize access to resources

One of the benefits of centralizing authentication is leveraging the enterprise's existing identities instead of having to create new credentials that users that interact with your clusters need to remember. It's important to know how to map your policies to these centralized users. In Chapter 5, Integrating Authentication into Your Cluster, you created a cluster and integrated it with an "enterprise Active Directory." To finish the integration, the following ClusterRoleBinding was created:

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: ou-cluster-admins
subjects:
- kind: Group
  name: cn=k8s-cluster-admins,ou=Groups,DC=domain,DC=com 
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
roleRef:
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

This binding allows all users that are members of the cn=k8s-cluster-admins,ou=Groups...