This guide provides helpful information to consider around security for Kubernetes in the cloud. It introduces tools and services available from SUSE that provide monitoring, network isolation, and realtime application and data protection for Kubernetes workloads on Google Cloud.
Containers and tools like Kubernetes enable enterprises to automate many aspects of application deployment on Google Cloud, providing tremendous business benefits. Put simply, organizations are delivering on strategies that give them a competitive edge on one of the world’s leading cloud platforms. But here’s an awkward truth. These new deployments are just as vulnerable to attacks and exploits from hackers and insiders as traditional environments. Ransomware extortion, crypto-jacking, data theft, and service disruption will continue to be used against new, container-based virtualized environments in both private and public clouds.
To make matters worse, new tools and technologies like Kubernetes and managed container services in the cloud will themselves be under attack as a gateway into an enterprise’s prized assets. Although currently rare, container technologybased exploits are expected to proliferate in the coming months and years.