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Amazon EKS Pod Identities automates the association between Kubernetes service accounts and AWS IAM roles, eliminating manual credential management.

This tutorial explains the steps involved in doing so.

More: https://medium.com/lumigo/eks-pod-identity-agent-7274e739832c

Kubernetes Community Days Romania starts in less than 2 weeks!

A one-day technical event loaded with exciting Kubernetes talks and networking opportunities.

📆 Thu, 25th Apr
⏰ 8am EET
📍 Bucharest, RO

👉 https://kube.events/t/b08aa779-8760-45e7-a493-4dc023871777

The article compares three policy engines: OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and jsPolicy.

More: https://blogs.aftabs.co/enforcing-security-and-compliance-with-kubernetes-policy-engines

Master Kubernetes with Learnk8s' Advanced Kubernetes workshops!

What should you expect?

- Learn how to architect and design clusters from the ground up (in the cloud or on-prem).
- Explore the Kubernetes internal component and how the system is designed with resiliency in mind.
- Deep-dive into the networking components and observe the packets flowing into the cluster.
- Hands-on labs to test the theory with real-world scenarios!
- And more.

The next course starts next week: https://learnk8s.io/online-advanced-april-2024

We also run in-person courses and corporate training: https://learnk8s.io/corporate-training

This week's 6 best Kubernetes vacancies that focus on security are:

DevSecOps Engineer with Anthropic
💰 $300K to $405K a year
🏠🏃🏻‍♂️🌎 San Francisco, CA / New York, NY, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/6a4b5616-64d0-4855-9e10-a0c2b7cefcca?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with Plaid
💰 $215.3K to $322.9K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/82ecabe4-3ee3-408e-9e59-de3130fd3475?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with Applied Intuition
💰 $65K to $400K a year
🏠 From the office in Mountain View, CA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/c6291093-2e86-4446-aab7-7f34af1a3112?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with PagerDuty
💰 $176K to $277K a year
🏠 From the office in Atlanta, GA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/f7204480-93a6-477a-996f-eee9e4c5f9bd?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with Hyperscience
💰 $190K to $260K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/ab01bf82-75af-4610-ba58-d58cd09f529a?s=55

👉 Browse all 453 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

If you are an admin running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS, you already need to manage AWS IAM credentials to provision and update the cluster.

You avoid managing a separate credential for Kubernetes access by using AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes.

More: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

🐾 Journey with Cluster API
📏 Horizontal Autoscaling
⏱️ Testing Service Mesh performance
🥷 Escaping the OOM Killer
💡 From on-premise to GKE

Read it now: https://learnk8s.io/issues/74

The article discusses enhancing Kubernetes network security using iptables, covering its setup, configuring rules for different nodes, and ensuring persistent configurations for continuous protection.

More: https://dev.to/docteurrs/shielding-your-kubernetes-network-mastering-iptables-for-enhanced-security-39o7

KubeMod is a universal Kubernetes mutating operator.

It introduces Custom Resource Definition (ModRule) that can intercept the deployment of any Kubernetes object and apply modifications or reject it before it is deployed to the cluster.

More: https://github.com/kubemod/kubemod

The article delves into Google Kubernetes Engine's Workload Identity Federation and highlights the security benefits, operational simplicity, and importance of annotations and policy bindings in managing access control.

More: https://medium.com/google-cloud/whoami-the-quest-of-understanding-gke-workload-identity-federation-e951e5e4a03f

This tutorial outlines securing a cluster with Kubescape, Prometheus, and Grafana for proactive risk identification, trend analysis, and improved audit processes.

A setup guide includes Terraform deployment and log management with Loki and Promtail.

More: https://araji.medium.com/proactive-kubernetes-security-unlocking-threat-detection-with-kubescape-prometheus-and-grafana-ad69593998fd

Master Kubernetes with Learnk8s' Advanced Kubernetes workshops!

What should you expect?

- Learn how to architect and design clusters from the ground up (in the cloud or on-prem).
- Explore the Kubernetes internal component and how the system is designed with resiliency in mind.
- Deep-dive into the networking components and observe the packets flowing into the cluster.
- Hands-on labs to test the theory with real-world scenarios!
- And more.

The next course starts on the 18th of April: https://learnk8s.io/online-advanced-april-2024

We also run in-person courses and corporate training: https://learnk8s.io/corporate-training

This week's 6 best Kubernetes vacancies that focus on security are:

DevSecOps Engineer with Plaid
💰 $215.3K to $322.9K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/82ecabe4-3ee3-408e-9e59-de3130fd3475?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with Applied Intuition
💰 $65K to $400K a year
🏠 From the office in Mountain View, CA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/c6291093-2e86-4446-aab7-7f34af1a3112?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with PagerDuty
💰 $176K to $277K a year
🏠 From the office in Atlanta, GA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/f7204480-93a6-477a-996f-eee9e4c5f9bd?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with Hyperscience
💰 $190K to $260K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/ab01bf82-75af-4610-ba58-d58cd09f529a?s=55

DevSecOps Engineer with GitLab
💰 $140K to $270K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/306ef9e5-04ad-467c-9838-ae768f566e45?s=55

👉 Browse all 449 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

This article describes the nuances of users and groups in Kubernetes and how the RBAC mechanism applies to them.

More: https://adityasamant.medium.com/users-groups-roles-and-api-access-in-kubernetes-10216cfab335

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

👀 How we preview Kubernetes changes
🎬 ArgoCD finalizer
🥷 Npm packages caught exfiltrating Kubernetes Config
🎫 Managed SSL certs for a private cluster
📊 Kubernetes Resource Recommender

Read it now: https://learnk8s.io/issues/73

Kubeconform is a Kubernetes manifests validation tool.

Similar to Kubeval, but with the following improvements:

1. High performance.
2. Remote or local schema locations
3. Up-to-date schemas for all recent versions of Kubernetes.

More: https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform

Kubeconform is a Kubernetes manifests validation tool.

Similar to Kubeval, but with the following improvements:

1. High performance.
2. Remote or local schema locations
3. Up-to-date schemas for all recent versions of Kubernetes.

More: https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform

AWS EKS Security Groups Per Pod is a feature that allows you to assign security groups to individual Kubernetes pods.

This gives you more granular control over the network traffic flowing to and from each pod.

Learn how to use it in this guide.

More: https://medium.com/@seifeddinerajhi/aws-eks-security-groups-per-pod-improve-the-security-of-your-kubernetes-clusters-a23a961793dc

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up a cert-manager to create and renew certifications automatically.

You'll also set up a hello-world deployment and service to test HTTPS traffic via a Kubernetes Ingress.

More: https://medium.com/@kevinlutzer9/managed-ssl-certs-for-a-private-kubernetes-cluster-with-cloudflare-cert-manager-and-lets-encrypt-7987ba19044f

This article discusses how the Sonatype Security Research team uncovered a malware campaign using npm packages to target Kubernetes configurations and SSH keys.

More: https://blog.sonatype.com/npm-packages-caught-exfiltrating-kubernetes-config-ssh-keys