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🐊 Policy Controller for Kubernetes

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4.3KGitHub stars
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🐊 Policy Controller for Kubernetes

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Observed mentions: 2019-09-20 16:24:00 UTC to 2023-07-02 21:39:29 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Re: scanning of images, if you're using Google Container Registry (or Google Artifact Registry) there's also Artifact Analysis and Vulnerability scanning which you can turn on (and pay for)[0] Re: security, defining security contexts for containers and pods are quite important, the container should not run as root, you should drop all capabilities, ...etc. For example securityContext: runAsNonRoot: true runAsGroup: 1000 runAsUser: 1000 privileged: false allowPrivilegeEscalation: false readOnlyRootFilesystem: true capabilities: drop: - ALL You should also use something like kubescape[1] to regularly scan your cluster (or helm files or yaml files). Furthermore, you should use an admission controller[2] like Gatekeeper[3] to enforce certain policies in your clusters e.g. containers should always h
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In Shrink to Secure: Kubernetes and Secure Compact Containers
Yes, there's a few listed in this blog post: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/bey... - Kubernetes admission controllers, OSS part of Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admi... - Kritis, OSS: https://opensource.google/projects/kritis - OPA Gatekeeper, OSS: https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper - Binary Authorization on GKE/Anthos: https://cloud.google.com/binary-authorization/ They don't all do all the pieces. The hardest part is going to be integrating whatever enforcement solution you choose with your upstream CI/CD pipeline. Disclosure: I work at Google and helped write this whitepaper on Binary Authorization for Borg.
In Binary Authorization for Borg

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