trust-manager is a tool for managing trust bundles in Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.

It combines a list of trusted certificates into a bundle that applications can directly trust.

More: https://github.com/cert-manager/trust-manager

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

DevSecOps Engineer with xAI
💰 $180K to $440K a year
🏠 From the office in San Francisco / Palo Alto, CA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer with Gemini
💰 $248K to $310K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States

DevSecOps Engineer with Uniswap Labs
💰 $264K to $294K a year
🏠 From the office in New York, NY, USA

Security Architect with Adobe Inc.
💰 $191.7K to $345.7K a year
🏠 From the office in Seattle, WA / San Francisco / San Jose, CA, USA

👉 Browse all 1388 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

Learn how to set up AWS IRSA on a self-hosted Kubernetes Cluster, including creating a Discovery Service, an AWS Identity Provider, and configuring a Kubernetes cluster.

More: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-irsa-on-a-self-hosted-kubernetes-cluster-02d2bfa4e824

Not all CPU and memory in your Kubernetes nodes can be used to run Pods.

The node has to run processes such as the Kubelet, daemons such as kube-proxy, and the operating system.

Explore the best instance types for your Kubernetes cluster interactively.

More: https://learnk8s.io/kubernetes-instance-calculator

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 110:

🔎 Container interference detection and mitigation
🧮 Kubernetes instance calculator
👍 Comparison of networking solutions for Kubernetes
🪣 Using S3 as a container registry
🏎️ Benchmarking what actually drives our containers

Read it now: https://learnk8s.io/issues/110

🌟 Become an expert in Kubernetes! Join the next Advanced Kubernetes workshop in January: https://learnk8s.io/training

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

DevSecOps Engineer with xAI
💰 $180K to $440K a year
🏠 From the office in San Francisco / Palo Alto, CA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer with Gemini
💰 $248K to $310K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States

DevSecOps Engineer with Uniswap Labs
💰 $264K to $294K a year
🏠 From the office in New York, NY, USA

Security Architect with Adobe Inc.
💰 $191.7K to $345.7K a year
🏠 From the office in Seattle, WA / San Francisco / San Jose, CA, USA

👉 Browse all 1415 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

Learn how to exploit a Kubernetes vulnerability using gitRepo volumes to gain root access to the underlying node, and discover ways to prevent this exploit, including admission control and removing the git binary from nodes.

More: https://raesene.github.io/blog/2024/07/10/Fun-With-GitRepo-Volumes

Cert Injection Webhook for Kubernetes is a tool that injects CA certificates and proxy environment variables into pods based on labels or annotations.

More: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/cert-injection-webhook

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 111:

🇵🇭 Kubernetes vs Philippine power outages: on setting up k0s over Tailscale
😅 Fun with GitRepo volumes
🤔 Understanding Kubernetes: networking and services
📕 The Kubernetes troubleshooting handbook
👩‍🏫 Container networking explained

Read it now: https://learnk8s.io/issues/111

🌟 Become an expert in Kubernetes! Join the next Advanced Kubernetes workshop in January: https://learnk8s.io/training

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

DevSecOps Engineer with xAI
💰 $180K to $440K a year
🏠 From the office in San Francisco / Palo Alto, CA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer with Gemini
💰 $248K to $310K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States

Security Architect with Adobe Inc.
💰 $191.7K to $345.7K a year
🏠 From the office in Seattle, WA / San Francisco / San Jose, CA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer with CoreWeave
💰 $240K to $275K a year
🏠🏃🏻‍♂️🌎 Roseland, NJ / Brooklyn, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA, USA

👉 Browse all 1360 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

In this article, you'll learn about Kubernetes Network Policies, including how they work, types of policies, and best practices for controlling network traffic flow in Kubernetes clusters to ensure secure communication between pods and applications.

More: https://aditya-tanwar.hashnode.dev/kubernetes-network-policies

Kubelogin is a Kubernetes credential (exec) plugin implementing the Azure authentication methods such as:

- Device code login.
- Non-interactive service principal login.
- Non-interactive workload identity login.
- OIDC provider for Azure AD.

And more.

More: https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin

In this article, you will learn how OpenSauced integrated the OpenSSF Scorecard into their platform using Kubernetes, enabling the scaling of security score checks across nearly any GitHub repository.

More: https://dev.to/opensauced/how-we-use-kubernetes-jobs-to-scale-openssf-scorecard-5bf2

Yakir Kadkoda and Assaf Morag from Aqua Security discuss the potential risks and attack vectors associated with compromised Docker registries.

They highlight scenarios where attackers can exploit private tokens to access container images and search for sensitive information, expanding their attack surface.

They also explain the danger of having write access to container registries, which could allow attackers to backdoor images, facilitating initial access and lateral movement within the network.

Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/5RKVBGlQR

In this article, you will learn how Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) works in Kubernetes, including infrastructure design, authentication and authorization, role binding, and service accounts to manage user and application access to cluster resources.

More: https://medium.com/@amansinghsonkh/how-rbac-works-in-the-kubernetes-0d421bf5cf39

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 112:

🧐 Monitoring inter-pod traffic at the AZ level with eBPF based tool retina
♻️ Mastering GitOps with Flux at Adore Me
📈 From chaos to control: the importance of tailored autoscaling in Kubernetes
💼 How we use Kubernetes jobs to scale the OpenSSF scorecard
🚦 Exploring the basics of Istio traffic management

Read it now: https://learnk8s.io/issues/112

🌟 Become an expert in Kubernetes! Join the next Advanced Kubernetes workshop in January: https://learnk8s.io/training

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Falco to detect and prevent potential threats without disrupting critical operations.

More: https://medium.com/@omar.kamal.abouraya/how-i-used-falco-to-secure-my-kubernetes-cluster-without-touching-critical-pods-159ad4546890

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

DevSecOps Engineer with xAI
💰 $180K to $440K a year
🏠 From the office in San Francisco / Palo Alto, CA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/c7cf5fcf-05bc-4e15-948b-f58c1c47fd9f

DevSecOps Engineer with Gemini
💰 $248K to $310K a year
👨‍💻 Remote from the United States
→ https://kube.careers/t/03598248-6bcb-4117-85b1-ecba6edb3070

Security Architect with Adobe Inc.
💰 $191.7K to $345.7K a year
🏠 From the office in Seattle, WA / San Francisco / San Jose, CA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/b6de3faf-adb8-462a-9dd9-260446149b27

DevSecOps Engineer with CoreWeave
💰 $240K to $275K a year
🏠🏃🏻‍♂️🌎 Roseland, NJ / Brooklyn, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA, USA
→ https://kube.careers/t/e9f1791e-bf17-4013-af2a-c52e93b6beaf

👉 Browse all 1469 Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers https://kube.careers

In this article, you will learn about network policies in Kubernetes, including the differences between Layer 4 and Layer 7 policies, their pros and cons, and how to implement them to achieve a zero-trust security model in your cluster.

More: https://buoyant.io/blog/a-guide-to-modern-kubernetes-network-policies

kubeseal-convert is a tool for importing secrets from pre-existing secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, Secrets Manager) into a SealedSecret.

More: https://github.com/EladLeev/kubeseal-convert

In this article, you will learn how to take a pragmatic approach to understanding the Kubernetes Threat Matrix, creating a security roadmap, and prioritizing vulnerabilities to build a secure cluster.

More: https://medium.com/@selsmie/a-pragmatic-look-at-the-kubernetes-threat-matrix-d58504e926b5