Container Orchestration Security

Container orchestration security covers the security of the platforms used to deploy and manage containers at scale — primarily Kubernetes and managed services like EKS, AKS, and GKE. Key concerns include securing the Kubernetes API server (RBAC, authentication, audit logging), protecting etcd (encryption at rest, access restriction), enforcing pod security standards, configuring admission controllers, and keeping cluster components patched.

Managed Kubernetes services handle some of these concerns but customers retain responsibility for worker node and workload security.