Kubernetes Security Best Practices You Should Follow
As Kubernetes continues to dominate the container orchestration world, securing your clusters becomes more critical than ever. Whether you're running Kubernetes in production or just experimenting in dev, poor security practices can lead to misconfigurations, breaches, and costly downtime. In this blog, we’ll dive into Kubernetes security best practices every DevOps engineer, platform architect, and developer should follow to protect their workloads, data, and users. 🚨 Why Kubernetes Security Matters Kubernetes is powerful, but with great power comes great complexity. Its flexible architecture, while a strength, also opens the door to: Misconfigurations Unauthorized access Resource overuse Supply chain vulnerabilities Security should never be an afterthought. It must be baked into every layer of your Kubernetes stack—from pods and nodes to the control plane. ✅ Top Kubernetes Security Best Practices 1. Enable Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) RBAC helps contr...