Gain hands-on skills in Kubernetes Secrets management, ensuring a comprehensive overview of the Secrets lifecycle and prioritizing adherence to regulatory standards and business sustainability
Key Features

Master Secrets encryption, encompassing complex life cycles, key rotation, access control, backup, and recovery
Build your skills to audit Secrets consumption, troubleshoot, and optimize for efficiency and compliance
Learn how to manage Secrets through real-world cases, strengthening your applications’ security posture
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Book Description

Securing Secrets in containerized apps poses a significant challenge for Kubernetes IT professionals. This book tackles the critical task of safeguarding sensitive data, addressing the limitations of Kubernetes encryption, and establishing a robust Secrets management system for heightened security for Kubernetes.

Starting with the fundamental Kubernetes architecture principles and how they apply to the design of Secrets management, this book delves into advanced Kubernetes concepts such as hands-on security, compliance, risk mitigation, disaster recovery, and backup strategies. With the help of practical, real-world guidance, you’ll learn how to mitigate risks and establish robust Secrets management as you explore different types of external secret stores, configure them in Kubernetes, and integrate them with existing Secrets management solutions.

Further, you'll design, implement, and operate a secure method of managing sensitive payload by leveraging real use cases in an iterative process to enhance skills, practices, and analytical thinking, progressively strengthening the security posture with each solution.

By the end of this book, you'll have a rock-solid Secrets management solution to run your business-critical applications in a hybrid multi-cloud scenario, addressing operational risks, compliance, and controls.
What you will learn

Explore Kubernetes Secrets, related API objects, and CRUD operations
Understand the Kubernetes Secrets limitations, attack vectors, and mitigation strategies
Explore encryption at rest and external secret stores
Build and operate a production-grade solution with a focus on business continuity
Integrate a Secrets Management solution in your CI/CD pipelines
Conduct continuous assessments of the risks and vulnerabilities for each solution
Draw insights from use cases implemented by large organizations
Gain an overview of the latest and upcoming Secrets management trends

Who this book is for

This handbook is a comprehensive reference for IT professionals to design, implement, operate, and audit Secrets in applications and platforms running on Kubernetes. For developer, platform, and security teams experienced with containers, this Secrets management guide offers a progressive path—from foundations to implementation—with a security-first mindset. You’ll also find this book useful if you work with hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms for organizations concerned with governance and compliance requirements.
Table of Contents

Understanding Kubernetes Secret Management
Walking through Kubernetes Secret Management Concepts
Encrypting secrets in transit and at rest
Debugging and Troubleshooting Kubernetes Secrets
Security, Auditing and Compliance
Disaster Recovery and Backups
Challenges and Risk for Managing Secrets in Kubernetes Production Environment
Exploring Secret Storage on AWS
Exploring Secret Storage on Azure

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