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SELinux System Administration, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Sven Vermeulen
Book Image

SELinux System Administration, Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

Linux is a dominant player in many organizations and in the cloud. Securing the Linux environment is extremely important for any organization, and Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) acts as an additional layer to Linux system security. SELinux System Administration covers basic SELinux concepts and shows you how to enhance Linux system protection measures. You will get to grips with SELinux and understand how it is integrated. As you progress, you’ll get hands-on experience of tuning and configuring SELinux and integrating it into day-to-day administration tasks such as user management, network management, and application maintenance. Platforms such as Kubernetes, system services like systemd, and virtualization solutions like libvirt and Xen, all of which offer SELinux-specific controls, will be explained effectively so that you understand how to apply and configure SELinux within these applications. If applications do not exert the expected behavior, you’ll learn how to fine-tune policies to securely host these applications. In case no policies exist, the book will guide you through developing custom policies on your own. By the end of this Linux book, you’ll be able to harden any Linux system using SELinux to suit your needs and fine-tune existing policies and develop custom ones to protect any app and service running on your Linux systems.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Using SELinux
8
Section 2: SELinux-Aware Platforms
14
Section 3: Policy Management

Leveraging Kubernetes' SELinux support

When containers are used in a larger environment, they are often managed through container orchestration frameworks that allow scaling container deployment and management across multiple systems. Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration framework with a good community, as well as commercial support.

Kubernetes uses the container software found on the machines under the hood. When, for instance, we install Kubernetes on Fedora's CoreOS, it will detect that Docker is available and use the Docker engine for managing the containers.

Configuring Kubernetes with SELinux support

Installing Kubernetes can be a daunting task, and several methods exist, ranging from single-node playground deployments up to commercially supported installations. One of the well-documented installation methods on the Kubernetes website is to use kubeadm for bootstrapping Kubernetes clusters.

Important note

The installation of Kubernetes is documented...