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- CVE-2023-1943: Privilege Escalation in kOps using GCE/GCP Provider in Gossip Mode Issue #15539 kubernetes/kops
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Authenticated Docker Hub image pulls in Kubernetes
The general problem of patching resource definitions that are not fully under your control has also been recognized for some time. This is true of default resources created and updated by cluster maintenance tools (e.g. kOps), or by public helm charts that you use to install common services and operators (e.g. nginx-ingress, cert-manager, and so on). High quality charts will allow you to override the configuration of important components such as service account references, but some simpler charts offer much less configuration.
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kubernetes: CA file when deploying via kops
The kops documentation is not very clear about this.
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Building ClickHouse Cloud from Scratch in a Year
Very fast progress and great article with lots of useful information. I found myself nodding a lot having recently seen GitLab Dedicated https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/subscriptions/gitlab_dedicated/ being developed that had my similar challenges. I wonder what other people think of Kops https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/
- How to backup / snapshot and restore full EKS cluster(s)?
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EKS vs ECS
note: I work with kube on a daily basis. All current clusters under my care use a managed backplane service though there are a number of small (3+ years-old) clusters that I still keep an eye on that were initialized using kops.
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
kOps with your own instances.
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đŸ’¡Hosted ETCD aaS
Companies run their own clusters (sometimes for cost reasons), using tools like kops, and kubeadm to set up their own clusters.
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Kubernetes with Kops: Mostly Automated Installation with Terraform
curl -Lo kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64 chmod +x kops sudo mv kops /usr/local/bin/
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Kubernetes from Scratch in 2022
Kops is a cluster setup and management command line tool that deploys a Kubernetes cluster to AWS. It provides configuration abstractions such as manifest YAML files that facilitate node and components configuration. And like Ansible, it will provide dry-run capabilities and ensures idempotency of changing the nodes.
sealed-secrets
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Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
If you have noticed, you are setting secrets in plain text on the application-configmap.yml file, which is not ideal and is not a best practice for security. The best way to do this securely would be to use AWS Secrets Manager, an external service like HashiCorp Vault, or Sealed Secrets. To learn more about these methods see the blog post Shhhh... Kubernetes Secrets Are Not Really Secret!.
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Plain text Kubernetes secrets are fine
Yeah documentation is hard and I'm guilty (as a former maintainer of SealedSecrets)
SealedSecrets was designed with "write only" secrets in mind.
Turns out a lot of people need to access the current secrets because they need to update a part of a "composite" secret.
There are two kinds of "composite" secrets, one easy and one harder, but if you don't know how to do it, even the easier is hard:
1. Secret with multiple data "items" (also called keys in K8s Secret jargon but that's confusing when there is encryption involved). I.e. good old "data":{"foo": "....", "bar": "..."}
2. Secrets where data within one item is actually a config file with cleartext and secrets mixed up in one single string (usually some JSON or YAML or TOML)
Case 1 is "easy" to deal with once you realize that sealed secrets files are just text files and you can just manually merge and update encryoted data items. We even created a "merge" and some "raw" encryption APIs to make that process a little less "copy pasta" but it's still hard to have a good UX that works for everyone.
Case 2 is harder. We did implement a data templating feature that allows you to generate a config file via a go-template that keeps the cleartext parts in clear and uses templating directives to inject the secret parts where you want (referencing the encrypted the items)
The main problem with case 2 is that it's undocumented.
The feature landed in 2021:
https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/pull/580
I noticed that people at my current $dayjob used sealed secrets for years and it took me a while to understand that the reason they hated it was that they didn't know about that fundamental feature.
And how to blame them!? It's still undocumented!
In my defense I spent so much effort before and after I left VMware to lobby so that the project got the necessary staffing so it wouldn't die of bitrot that I didn't have much time left to work on documentation. Which is a bit said and probably just an excuse :-)
That said, I'm happy that the project is alive and the current maintainers are taking care of it against the forces of entropy. Perhaps some doc work would be useful too. Unfortunately I don't have time for now.
- Storing secrets in distributed binaries?
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Weekly: Questions and advice
This might be OT, and forgive me, but I think one of the best practices for Encrypting and Managing secrets in Kubernetes is to use Sealed Secrets, they allow your secrets to be securely stored in git with the rest of the configuration and yet no one with access to the Git repository will be able to read them. I say this might be OT, because Sealed Secrets are trying to mitigate a different threat, the threat of the secrets at rest somewhere, and not "live in the cluster", where in theory all the ingredients to decrypt the secrets would still live.
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Want advice on planned evolution: k3os/Longhorn --> Talos/Ceph, plus Consul and Vault
The addition of Consul and Vault gives me a few things. For one, right now I'm handling secrets with a mixture of SOPS and Sealed Secrets. I use Vault in my professional life, and have used both Vault and Consul at my last job. Vault is a beast, so I may as well get better at it; plus its options for secret injection are better.
- Homebrew 4.0.0 release
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
Use Sealed Secrets Operator.
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Secret Management in Kubernetes: Approaches, Tools, and Best Practices
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- How do other securely manage their secrets?
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GitOps and Kubernetes – Secure Handling of Secrets
An option that easily works with GitOps is the Operator Sealed Secrets from Bitnami. Secrets encrypted with it can only be decrypted by operators running inside the cluster, not even by the original author. For encryption, there is a CLI (and a third-party web UI) that requires a connection to the cluster. The disadvantage of this is that the key material is stored in the cluster, the secrets are bound to the cluster and one has to take care of backups and operation.
What are some alternatives?
kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
vault-secrets-operator - Create Kubernetes secrets from Vault for a secure GitOps based workflow.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle
Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
rancher - Complete container management platform
kubernetes-external-secrets - Integrate external secret management systems with Kubernetes
kubeadm - Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm
helm-secrets - A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere
microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
argocd-vault-plugin - An Argo CD plugin to retrieve secrets from Secret Management tools and inject them into Kubernetes secrets