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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

Implementing namespace multi-tenancy

Clusters deployed for multiple stakeholders, or tenants, should be divided up by namespace. This is the boundary that was designed into Kubernetes from the very beginning. When deploying namespaces, there are generally two ClusterRoles that are assigned to users in the namespace:

  • admin: This aggregated ClusterRole provides access to every verb and nearly every resource that ships with Kubernetes, making the admin user the ruler of their namespace. The exception to this is any namespace-scoped object that could affect the entire cluster, such as ResourceQuotas.
  • edit: Similar to admin, but without the ability to create RBAC Roles or RoleBindings.

It's important to note that the admin ClusterRole can't make changes to the namespace object by itself. Namespaces are cluster-wide resources, so they can only be assigned permissions via a ClusterRoleBinding.

Depending on your strategy for multi-tenancy, the admin...