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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

By : Gigi Sayfan
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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

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By: Gigi Sayfan

Overview of this book

The fourth edition of the bestseller Mastering Kubernetes includes the most recent tools and code to enable you to learn the latest features of Kubernetes 1.25. This book contains a thorough exploration of complex concepts and best practices to help you master the skills of designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems on Kubernetes clusters. You’ll learn how to run complex stateless and stateful microservices on Kubernetes, including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backends. In addition, you’ll understand how to utilize serverless computing and service meshes. Further, two new chapters have been added. “Governing Kubernetes” covers the problem of policy management, how admission control addresses it, and how policy engines provide a powerful governance solution. “Running Kubernetes in Production” shows you what it takes to run Kubernetes at scale across multiple cloud providers, multiple geographical regions, and multiple clusters, and it also explains how to handle topics such as upgrades, capacity planning, dealing with cloud provider limits/quotas, and cost management. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll have a strong understanding of, and hands-on experience with, a wide range of Kubernetes capabilities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Employing access control webhooks

Kubernetes provides several ways for you to customize access control. In Kubernetes, access control can be denoted with triple-A: Authentication, Authorization, and Admission control. In early versions, access control happened through plugins that required Go programming, installing them into your cluster, registration, and other invasive procedures. Now, Kubernetes lets you customize authentication, authorization, and admission control via web hooks. Here is the access control workflow:

Figure 15.6: Access control workflow

Using an authentication webhook

Kubernetes lets you extend the authentication process by injecting a webhook for bearer tokens. It requires two pieces of information: how to access the remote authentication service and the duration of the authentication decision (it defaults to two minutes).

To provide this information and enable authentication webhooks, start the API server with the following command-line...