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Self Signed Certificates

The previous blog talked about generating self-signed certificates using a binary. It was a manual, cumbersome process where you had to generate the certificates using a tool, embed them into a Kubernetes Secret via Helm chart, and then use it. There is a better way of doing it! Which is what this blog will discuss.

Mitigation of: Access Any Kubernetes Secret

A Validating Admission Webhook Server to deny anyone accessing forbidden Kubernetes Secrets!

Suraj Deshmukh

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Config

In the previous blog, we discussed how any user without RBAC access to a Kubernetes secret can use a trick to access that secret. To mitigate that problem, we will use a validating admission webhook. But before looking at what sorcery this validating admission webhook server is, let us understand how Kubernetes handles the API requests.

Watch Container Traffic Without Exec

How to watch the traffic of a container or a pod without execing into the pod/contaienr?

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For the reasons of security, many container deployments nowadays run their workloads in a scratch based image. This form of implementation helps reduce the attack surface since there is no shell to gain access to, especially if someone were to break out of the application.

Writing your own Seccomp profiles for Docker

Understanding the seccomp profile json format

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A large number of system calls are exposed to every userland process with many of them going unused for the entire lifetime of the process. A certain subset of userland applications benefit by having a reduced set of available system calls. The resulting set reduces the total kernel surface exposed to the application. System call filtering is meant for use with those applications. Seccomp filtering provides a means for a process to specify a filter for incoming system calls.

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I am a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on various tooling around container technology like Docker, Kubernetes, etc.