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Published inDec 2021
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803230030
Edition2nd Edition
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Marc Boorshtein
Marc Boorshtein
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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
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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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In this chapter, we explored how to use Gatekeeper as a dynamic admission controller to provide additional authorization policies on top of Kubernetes' built-in RBAC capabilities. We looked at how Gatekeeper and OPA are architected. Then, we learned how to build, deploy, and test policies in Rego. Finally, you were shown how to use Gatekeeper's built-in mutation support to create default configuration options in pods.

Extending Kubernetes' policies leads to a stronger security profile in your clusters and provides greater confidence in the integrity of the workloads you are running.

Using Gatekeeper can also help catch previously missed policy violations through its application of continuous audits. Using these capabilities will provide a stronger foundation for your cluster.

This chapter focused on whether or not to launch a Pod based on our specific policies. In the next chapter, we'll learn how to protect your nodes from the processes running...

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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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