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Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By : Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein
Book Image

Kubernetes and Docker - An Enterprise Guide

By: Scott Surovich, Marc Boorshtein

Overview of this book

Containerization has changed the DevOps game completely, with Docker and Kubernetes playing important roles in altering the flow of app creation and deployment. This book will help you acquire the knowledge and tools required to integrate Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise environment. The book begins by introducing you to Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, including a review of basic Kubernetes objects. You’ll then get to grips with containerization and understand its core functionalities, including how to create ephemeral multinode clusters using kind. As you make progress, you’ll learn about cluster architecture, Kubernetes cluster deployment, and cluster management, and get started with application deployment. Moving on, you’ll find out how to integrate your container to a cloud platform and integrate tools including MetalLB, externalDNS, OpenID connect (OIDC), pod security policies (PSPs), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Falco, and Velero. Finally, you will discover how to deploy an entire platform to the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to create development clusters for testing applications and Kubernetes components, and be able to secure and audit a cluster by implementing various open-source solutions including OpenUnison, OPA, Falco, Kibana, and Velero.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Docker and Container Fundamentals
5
Section 2: Creating Kubernetes Development Clusters, Understanding objects, and Exposing Services
9
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in the Enterprise

Enabling PSPs

Enabling PSPs is very simple. Adding PodSecurityPolicy to the API server's list of admission controllers will send all newly created Pod objects through the PodSecurityPolicy admission controller. This controller does two things:

  • Identifies the best policy: The best policy to use is identified by the capabilities requested by a pod's definition. A pod cannot explicitly state which policy it wants to enforce, only what capabilities it wants.
  • Determines whether the Pod's policy is authorized: Once a policy is identified, the admission controller needs to determine whether the creator of the pod or the serviceAccount of the pod is authorized to use that policy.

The combination of these two criteria can lead to unexpected results. The creator of the pod isn't the user that submits the Deployment or StatefulSet definition. There's a controller that watches for Deployment updates and creates a ReplicaSet. There is a controller that...