If 2018 was the year of learning about Kubernetes, then 2019 was the year of deploying Kubernetes in production. “Helped by maturing standards and management platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher, as well as managed offerings from AWS (EKS), Azure (AKS), and Google (GKE), many of the global 1000 are now deploying production clusters,” said Rani Osnat, vice president of strategy at cloud-native application security firm Aqua Security. Yet along with growth, Kubernetes adoption creates some security concerns. “Security teams are often playing catch-up to this technology, and malicious actors are not far behind with the most popular K8s-based attacks being crypto-currency mining,” he noted. New adopters should, therefore, be prepared to address Kubernetes’ security vulnerabilities prior to adoption.
