Securing Kubernetes API Server with RBAC and AWS IAM

Meetup ·

Running Kubernetes is easier today but securing its most important component is not. This talk focused on how to do it with a Kubernetes cluster running on AWS.

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In this meetup, I went through an overview of Kubernetes and then demonstrated how to secure Kubernetes cluster installed on AWS infrastructure via kops or EKS.

I answered questions like:

  • How Kubernetes uses RBAC to secure API access?
  • What are the Kubernetes Service Accounts?
  • How to integrate AWS IAM with Kubernetes Auth Controller via aws-iam-authenticator?
  • How to update your kubeconfig to properly utilize your aws-cli config setup?
  • How to securely access multiple Kubernetes clusters from the same local machine?

This meetup was organized by Cloud Collective meetup group and event details are available here.