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A DEVOP STATE OF MIND: CONTINUOUS SECURITY 
 WITH KUBERNETES Chris Van Tuin Chief Technologist, NA West 
 linkedin: Chris Van Tuin
 email: [email protected]
 twitter: @chrisvantuin

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“Only the paranoid survive” - Andy Grove, 1996

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I.T. MUST EVOLVE FROM A COST CENTER 
 TO INNOVATION CENTER Development Model Application Architecture Deployment & Packaging Application Infrastructur e Storage Waterfall Agile Monolithic N-tier Bare Metal Virtual Servers Data Center Hosted Scale Up Scale Out DevOps MicroServices Containers Hybrid Cloud Storage as a Service

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BARE METAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD OFF-PREMISE ON-PREMISE PUBLIC CLOUD DATA DATA DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS

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ANY COMBINATION, WHETHER TRADITIONAL OR CONTAINERIZED LEGACY APPS (1,000+) BARE METAL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD VIRTUAL PRODUCTION DEV/TEST HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

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MULTI-TENANCY

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DEV QA OPS SECURITY IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT | SECURITY | “Patch? The servers are behind the firewall.” - Anonymous (far too many to name), 2005 - …

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DEVSECOPS + + End to End Security DEV QA OPS Culture Process Technology Linux + Containers IaaS Orchestration CI/CD Source Control Management Collaboration Build and Artifact Management Testing Frameworks Open Source

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DEVSECOPS Continuous Security Improvement Process Optimization Security Automation Dev QA Prod Reduce Risks, Lower Costs, Speed Delivery, Speed Reaction

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CONTAINERS AT SCALE

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LAPTOP Container Application OS dependencies Guest VM LINUX BARE METAL Container Application OS dependencies LINUX VIRTUALIZATION Container Application OS dependencies Virtual Machine LINUX PRIVATE CLOUD Container Application OS dependencies Virtual Machine LINUX PUBLIC CLOUD Container Application OS dependencies Virtual Machine LINUX CONTAINERIZED MICROSERVICES
 Build Once, Deploy Anywhere

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Image Format Distribution Spec Runtime Spec

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BARE METAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD Automated Software Factory
 Speed, Resiliency, Scalability, Security 


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Databases Images Automation MANAGING CONTAINERIZED MICROSERVICES
 WITH KUBERNETES A/B Testing Migrations External
 Services Deployment Strategies Security What’s Next… CI/CD Scanning ENABLING DEVSECOPS WITH KUBERNETES External 
 Services Databases Migrations Infrastructure Version 1 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100%

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KUBERNETES AUTOMATION

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Web Application ORCHESTRATION Pods Nodes Controller Manager & Data Store (etcd) Ingress / Routes role: web role: app role: web replicas: 1, 
 role: app replicas: 2, 
 role: web Services

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Pods Nodes Services Web Application role: web role: app role: web replicas: 1, 
 role: app replicas: 2, 
 role: web role: web Controller Manager & Data Store (etcd) HEALTH CHECK Ingress / Routes Health Check

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Web Application 80% CPU Pods Nodes Services role: web role: app role: web Controller Manager & Data Store (etcd) role: app AUTO-SCALE Ingress / Routes replicas: 2 
 role: app replicas: 2, 
 role: web Readiness Probe e.g. tcp, http, script

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CONTAINER IMAGES

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docker.io Registry Private Registry FROM fedora:1.0 CMD echo “Hello” Build file Physical, Virtual, Cloud Container Image Container Instance Build Run Ship CONTAINERS ENABLE DEVOPS

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CONTAINER IMAGE JAR CONTAINER IMAGE Application Application Language runtimes OS dependencies 1.2/latest 1.1

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Config Data Kubernetes configmaps secrets Container image Traditional 
 data services, Kubernetes 
 persistent volumes TREAT CONTAINERS AS IMMUTABLE To keep containerized apps portable Application Language runtimes OS dependencies

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KUBERNETES CONFIGMAP Decouple configuration from container image Application Language runtimes OS dependencies Environment Variable or Volume/File CONTAINER INSTANCE key:value from directories, files, or values KUBERNETES
 CONFIGMAP APPLICATION CONFIG FILE Application Configuration File e.g. XML etcd Pod Source Code Repository EnvVar require pod restart Files refresh in time

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CONTINUOUS BUILDS

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A CONVERGED SOFTWARE 
 SUPPLY CHAIN

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CUSTOM SUPPLY CHAIN CASCADING REBUILDS

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Java Build Environment Language runtimes OS dependencies Build Image Java Code Application Language runtimes OS dependencies Container Image Image Registry Source Repository Image Registry REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS Source to Image with Build Images Source v3.1 v1.0.1 v3.1

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CI/CD PIPELINE WITH KUBERNETES BARE METAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD

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CONTAINER SCANNING

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WHAT’S INSIDE MATTERS…

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PRIVATE REGISTRY

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Security CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION WITH SECURITY SCAN

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AUTOMATED SECURITY SCANNING with OpenSCAP Reports & Remediation Scan SCAP Security Guide for RHEL CCE-27002-5 Set Password Minimum Length Content Scan physical servers, virtual machines, docker images and containers
 for Security Policy Compliance (CCEs) and known Security Vulnerabilities (CVEs)

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DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY WITH CONTAINERS CI/CD - CONTAINER UPDATES

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CI/CD DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES
 Automate and reduce deployment risk DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES • Recreate • Rolling updates • Blue / Green deployment • Canary with A/B testing

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Recreate

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Version 1 Version 1 Version 1 Version 1.2 ` Tests / CI RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME
 Using Recreate deployment strategy Kubernetes
 Service

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Version 1 Version 1 Version 1 Version 1.2 ` Tests / CI RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME
 Shutdown existing deployment Kubernetes
 Service

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Version 1.2 Version 1.2 Version 1.2 RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME Use Case • Non-mission critical services Pros • Simple, clean • No Schema incompatibilities • No API versioning Cons • Downtime RECREATE WITH DOWNTIME
 Shutdown existing deployment Kubernetes
 Service

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Rolling Updates

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Version 1 Version 1 Version 1 Version 1.2 ` Tests / CI ROLLING UPDATES with ZERO DOWNTIME Rollingupdate
 maxUnavailable=0 maxSurge=1 ROLLING UPDATES
 Replace each pod using RollingUpdate deployment strategy Kubernetes
 Service

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Deploy new version and wait until it’s ready… Health Check: readiness probe e.g. tcp, http, script Version 1 Version 1 Version 
 1.2 Version 1 Rollingupdate
 maxUnavailable=0 maxSurge=1 ROLLING UPDATES
 Deploy new version, wait until it’s ready Kubernetes
 Service

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Each container/pod is updated one by one Version 1.2 50% Version 1 V1 V1.2 ROLLING UPDATES
 Requires backward compatibility, as two versions run side-by-side Kubernetes
 Service

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Each container/pod is updated one by one Version 1.2 Version 1.2 Version 1.2 100% Use Case • Horizontally scaled • Backward compatible API/data • Microservices Pros • Zero downtime • Reduced risk, gradual rollout w/health checks • Ready for rollback Cons • Require backward compatible APIs/data • Resource overhead ROLLING UPDATES Kubernetes
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Blue / Green Deployment

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BLUE Version 1 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Single service, run two complete Deployments BLUE Version 1 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% Service
 selector:
 production=BLUE Kubernetes
 Deployment

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BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% Health Check: readiness probe e.g. tcp, http, script BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Using Deployments, Ingress Service
 selector:
 production=BLUE Kubernetes
 Deployment Kubernetes
 Deployment

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BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Route all new request to Green, Blue sessions Service
 selector:
 version=GREEN

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BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Using Deployments, Ingress Service
 selector:
 production=GREEN

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BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Scale-down, reduce resources Service
 selector:
 production=GREEN

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BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100% BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Hot Backup Service
 selector:
 production=GREEN Version 2

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BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Rollback BLUE GREEN Version 1 Version 2 Ingress Use Case • Self-contained micro services (data) Pros • Low risk, never change production • No downtime • Production like testing • Rollback Cons • Resource overhead • Data synchronization BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT
 Rollback Service
 selector:
 production=BLUE

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RAPID INNOVATION & EXPERIMENTATION WITH A/B TESTING

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”only about 1/3 of ideas improve the metrics 
 they were designed to improve.”
 Ronny Kohavi, Microsoft (Amazon) MICROSERVICES RAPID INNNOVATION & EXPERIMENTATION

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A/B TESTING USING CANARY DEPLOYMENTS

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25% Conversion Rate ?! Conversion Rate 100% Version B Version A Ingress CANARY DEPLOYMENTS Tests / CI CANARY DEPLOYMENTS
 Build confidence in new version Service
 selector:
 app=demo version=A label:
 app=demo
 version=A 25% Conversion Rate ??% Conversion Rate

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25% Conversion Rate 30% Conversion Rate 75% 25% Version B Version A Ingress CANARY DEPLOYMENTS CANARY DEPLOYMENTS
 Requires app to support side-by-side version Service Service
 selector:
 app=demo label:
 app=demo
 version=A 25% Conversion Rate % Conversion Rate label:
 app=demo
 version=B

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25% Conversion Rate 30% Conversion Rate 100% Version B Version A Ingress CANARY DEPLOYMENTS Service
 selector:
 app=demo version=B label:
 app=demo
 version=A 25% Conversion Rate 30% Conversion Rate label:
 app=demo
 version=B

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Databases Images Automation MANAGING CONTAINERIZED MICROSERVICES
 WITH KUBERNETES A/B Testing Migrations External
 Services Deployment Strategies Security What’s Next… CI/CD Scanning ENABLING DEVSECOPS WITH KUBERNETES External 
 Services Databases Migrations Infrastructure Version 1 Ingress e.g haproxy BLUE / GREEN DEPLOYMENT Using Ingress 100%

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EXTERNAL SERVICES

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EXTERNAL SERVICES Database outside cluster with IP address External Mongo Database Service External Mongo Database Service Development Production IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017

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EXTERNAL SERVICES Database outside cluster with IP address Pods Nodes Services WebApp role=webapp replicas=2, 
 role=webapp External Mongo Database Service IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Network External Mongo Database Service IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017

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EXTERNAL SERVICES Database outside cluster with IP address Pods Nodes Services WebApp role=webapp replicas=2, 
 role=webapp External Mongo Database Service IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Network External Mongo Database Service IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017 Database name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017 Endpoint IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Database kind=Service type=ClusterIP name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017

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EXTERNAL SERVICES Database outside cluster with IP address Pods Nodes Services WebApp role=webapp replicas=2, 
 role=webapp External Mongo Database Service IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Network External Mongo Database Service IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017 Database name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017 Endpoint IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Connect with mongodb://mongo Database kind=Service type=ClusterIP name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017 kind=Endpoints name=mongo ip=10.200.0.2 port=27017

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EXTERNAL SERVICES Database outside cluster with IP address Pods Nodes Services WebApp role=webapp replicas=2, 
 role=webapp External Mongo Database Service IP=10.200.0.2 port=27017 Network External Mongo Database Service IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017 Database name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017 Endpoint IP=10.100.0.9 port=27017 kind=Service type=ClusterIP name=mongo port=27017 targetport=27017 kind=Endpoints name=mongo ip=10.200.0.9 port=27017 Connect with mongodb://mongo Database

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Pods Nodes Services Database name: mongo type: ExternalName externalName: mongo52101.domain,.name EXTERNAL SERVICES Using CNAME redirection mongodb://
 :
 
 @mongo:/dev 
 mongodb://:
 @mongo52101.domain.name:52101/dev Cloud Mongo Database Service WebApp role=webapp replicas=2, 
 role=webapp .name EXTERNAL SERVICE Connecting to Service with dynamic URI with a static ExternalName Kubernetes service

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DATABASES

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PERSISTENT VOLUMES Host Container Host Container Host Container Data in Container Data lost when Container terminates Data lost when Host terminates Independent of Container & Host Data in a Host Volume Networked Volume Data lost when Cloud instance terminates Data lost when Container terminates Independent of 
 Container & 
 Cloud instance DATA PERSISTENCE

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1. Maintains a sticky network ID/name across restarts
 e.g. mongo-0, mongo-1, mongo-2 2. Ordered Operations with ordinal index 
 e.g. name-0, name-1, name-2 3. Stable, persistent storage (linked to ordinal index/name) 4. Mandatory headless service (no single IP) for integrations KUBERNETES
 STATEFULSETS

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role=mongo type=leader Nodes Pods Services Mongo StatefulSet replicas=2 role=mongo Client mongo-0 D A B C C DATABASE STATEFUL SETS StatefulSet with 2 replicas , headless service, direct access to pods pvc Read / Write Persistent Volume

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DATABASE STATEFUL SETS role=mongo type=leader role=mongo type=follower Nodes Pods Services Client Mongo-0 Mongo-1 D A B C C Mongo StatefulSet replicas=2 role=mongo pvc pvc Read / Write Read / Only Persistent Volume

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role=mongo type=leader role=mongo type=follower role=mongo type=follower Nodes Pods Services Mongo-0 Mongo-1 Mongo-2 pvc pvc pvc Persistent Volume A B C C D Mongo StatefulSet replicas=3 role=mongo Read / Write Read / Only Read / Only DATABASE STATEFUL SETS Scale to 3 replicas Client

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role=mongo type=leader role=mongo type=follower role=mongo type=follower Nodes Pods Services Mongo-0 Mongo-1 Mongo-2 pvc pvc pvc Persistent Volume A B C D Mongo StatefulSet replicas=3 role=mongo DATABASE STATEFUL SETS Unresponsive Pod Client

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role=mongo type=leader role=mongo type=follower Nodes Pods Services Mongo-0 Mongo-1 pvc pvc Persistent Volume A B D role=mongo type=follower Mongo-2 pvc C Mongo StatefulSet replicas=3 role=mongo DATABASE STATEFUL SETS Auto recovery Client

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DATABASE MIGRATIONS

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Application v3 Development Application V2 Test Application v1 Production DB v1 DB v2 DB v3 CI/CD PIPELINE Version control database updates, ex: flyway V3__add_table_scooter.sql V2__add_table_truck.sql V1__add_table_car.sql

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DATABASE MIGRATIONS Version control database updates with Containers CONTAINER IMAGE CONTAINER BUILD FILE SQL MIGRATION SCRIPT Source Code Repository V2__add_table.sql Source Code Repository V2__add_table.sql /var/flyway/data Flyway flyway-mydb:v2.0.0 Registry + Dockerfile

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Nodes Pods Services postgresql-0 Persistent Volume A B D C PostgreSQL StatefulSet replicas=1 role=postgresq pvcl DATABASE MIGRATION StatefulSet deployment with headless Service v1

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Nodes Pods Services postgresql-0 Persistent Volume A B D C PostgreSQL StatefulSet replicas=1 role=postgresql Pvc DATABASE MIGRATIONS Create a Job for Flyway Flyway Job Secrets = Database Connection Info v1 flyway-mydb:v2.0.0 Image Registry Flyway

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role=postgressql type=primary Nodes Pods Services postgresql-0 Persistent Volume A B D C PostgreSQL StatefulSet replicas=1 role=postgresql pvc DATABASE MIGRATIONS Apply schema changes to database Flyway Job Secrets = Database Connection Info V2 flyway-mydb:v2.0.0 Flyway

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role=postgresql type=primary Nodes Pods Services postgresql-0 Persistent Volume A B D C PostgreSQL StatefulSet replicas=1 role=postgresql Pvc DATABASE MIGRATIONS Version control for database with Kubernetes V2

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INFRASTRUCTURE

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MONITORING CONSIDERATIONS Kubernetes* Container* Host Cluster services, services, pods, 
 deployments metrics Container native metrics Traditional resource metrics - cpu, memory, network, storage prometheus + grafana kubernetes-state-metrics probes Stack Metrics Tool node-exporter kubelet:cAdvisor Microservices Distributed applications - traditional app metrics - service discovery - distributed tracing prometheus + grafana jaeger tracing istio

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Network Namespace 
 provides resource isolation NETWORK ISOLATION Multi-Environment Multi-Tenant

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NETWORK POLICY example: 
 all pods in namespace ‘project-a’ allow traffic 
 from any other pods in the same namespace.”

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Kernel Hardware (Intel, AMD) or Virtual Machine Containers Containers Containers Unit File Docker Image Container CLI SYSTEMD Cgroups Namespaces SELinux Drivers CONTAINERS ARE LINUX seccomp Read Only mounts

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CGROUPS - RESOURCE ISOLATION

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NAMESPACES - PROCESS ISOLATION

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SELINUX - MANDATORY ACCESS CONTROLS Password Files Web Server Attacker Discretionary Access Controls 
 (file permissions) Mandatory Access Controls 
 (selinux) Internal Network Firewall Rules Password Files Firewall Rules Internal Network Web Server selinux policy

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SECCOMP - DROPPING PRIVILEGES Tooling: strace, go2seccomp, … 300+ system calls, create whitelist…

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READ ONLY MOUNTS

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Best Practices • Don’t run as root • Limit SSH Access • Use namespaces • Define resource quotas • Enable logging • Apply Security Errata • Apply Security Context and seccomp filters • Most namespace 
 sysctls are not safe http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/08/security-best-practices-kubernetes-deployment.html CONTAINER HOST SECURITY Kernel Hardware (Intel, AMD) or Virtual Machine Containers Containers Containers Unit File Docker Image Container CLI SYSTEMD Cgroups Namespaces SELinux Drivers seccomp Read Only mounts

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WHAT’S NEXT

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EXTENDING KUBERNETES kubevirt github.com/kubevirt operators coreos.com/operators knative github.com/knative istio istio.io Virtual Machines Day 2 Operations Server-
 less Service Mesh

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Deployment Frequency Lead Time Deployment
 Failure Rate Mean Time to Recover 99.999 Service Availability DEVSECOPS METRICS Compliance Score

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THANK YOU linkedin: Chris Van Tuin email: [email protected] twitter: @chrisvantuin