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Security Best Practices in Google Cloud: Containers

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Security Best Practices in Google Cloud: Containers

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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3 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Implement baseline security by mandating GKE Autopilot to automate cluster hardening, patch management, and establish a secure-by-default posture.

  • Harden GKE worker nodes to reduce the node attack surface. Manage human administrator access to the GKE cluster.

  • Enforce keyless pod authentication to eliminate static service account keys and provide short-lived, least-privilege identities.

  • Protect highly sensitive application credentials by using Secret Manager and explicitly encrypting Kubernetes Secrets in etcd using Cloud KMS.

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