Skill · Kubernetes · Secure a Kubernetes cluster
Harden a cluster's components with the CIS Benchmark
Audit a cluster against the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark with kube-bench, then fix its components' configuration point by point.
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- 1 lesson
- ~1 h 30 of reading
- 1 quiz
- 0 proof lab
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Harden a cluster's components with the CIS Benchmark
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Lessons
How to learn it
1 lesson, about ~1 h 30, in program order. Each lesson ends with its quiz.
The program
1 lesson · ~1 h 30
- 1CIS Benchmark (in French)· 90 min
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Assess, practise, pass the proof
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Assess yourself
1 quiz
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, it confirms the skill.
Practice
2 guided labs
Proof
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Same block · Secure a Kubernetes cluster
- Harden a Pod's execution context (securityContext)
- Give a workload a minimal identity (ServiceAccount)
- Authorize access to the Kubernetes API with RBAC
- Make the cluster reject what breaks a security rule
- Confine a container against the host kernel (seccomp, AppArmor)
- Isolate a Pod in a sandboxed runtime (RuntimeClass)
- Trace who acted on the API with the Kubernetes audit log
- Encrypt and authenticate traffic between Pods