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Published inDec 2021

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Marc Boorshtein

Scott Surovich

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Understanding how Kubernetes knows who you are

In the 1999 sci-fi film The Matrix, Neo talks to a child about the Matrix as he waits to see the Oracle. The child explains to him that the trick to manipulating the Matrix is to realize that "There is no spoon."

This is a great way to look at users in Kubernetes, because they don't exist. With the exception of service accounts, which we'll talk about later, there are no objects in Kubernetes called "User" or "Group." Every API interaction must include enough information to tell the API server who the user is and what groups the user is a member of. This assertion can take different forms, depending on how you plan to integrate authentication into your cluster.

In this section, we will get into the details of the different ways Kubernetes can associate a user with a cluster.

External users

Users who are accessing the Kubernetes API from outside the cluster will usually do so using...

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Published in: Dec 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803230030

Authors (2)

Marc Boorshtein

Marc Boorshtein has been a software engineer and consultant for 20 years and is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Tremolo Security, Inc. Marc has spent most of his career building identity management solutions for large enterprises, U.S. Government civilian agencies, and local government public safety systems.
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Scott Surovich

Scott Surovich has been involved in the industry for over 25 years and is currently the Global Container Engineering Lead at a tier 1 bank as the Global on-premises Kubernetes product owner architecting and, delivering cluster standards, including the surrounding ecosystem. His previous roles include working on other global engineering teams, including Windows, Linux, and virtualization.
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