LABINTERMEDIATE

Application Security in Kubernetes

Master Kubernetes security contexts, network policies, and pod security standards to secure your containerized applications.

45 minutes
kubernetes/ckad
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Lab Overview

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn to implement comprehensive security measures for Kubernetes applications. You'll configure security contexts at pod and container levels, create network policies to control traffic flow, implement pod security standards, and apply security best practices.

This lab covers essential CKAD exam objectives related to application security, helping you understand how to build and deploy secure containerized applications.

Skills Practiced:

  • Configuring security contexts (runAsUser, capabilities, readOnlyRootFilesystem)
  • Creating and applying network policies
  • Implementing pod security standards
  • Applying security best practices for containers

Prerequisites

basic-kubernetes-knowledge

linux-command-line

Technologies Covered

kubernetesckadsecuritysecurity-contextnetwork-policiespod-security

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the CKAD Certification Preparation course

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