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Is AKS secure?

Is AKS secure?

AKS combines these security components to: Keep your AKS cluster running the latest OS security updates and Kubernetes releases. Provide secure pod traffic and access to sensitive credentials.

What is the use of AKS?

Use AKS to simplify the deployment and management of microservices based architecture. AKS streamlines horizontal scaling, self-healing, load balancing, secret management.

Does AKS use Docker?

AKS supports the Docker image format. For private storage of your Docker images, you can integrate AKS with Azure Container Registry (ACR).

What is AKS cluster?

AKS Cluster is a Kubernetes cluster, which is created on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by Microsoft is one of the leading managed K8s services. Kubernetes is dominating all the containerization techniques that are available in today’s world, and there is no match for it.

What is a Kubernetes secret?

A Secret is an object that contains a small amount of sensitive data such as a password, a token, or a key. Secrets are similar to ConfigMaps but are specifically intended to hold confidential data. Caution: Kubernetes Secrets are, by default, stored unencrypted in the API server’s underlying data store (etcd).

How do I monitor my aks?

From AKS Cluster:

  1. Click on your AKS cluster from Azure Portal.
  2. Monitoring >> Insights.

Is Azure AKS IaaS or PaaS?

Azure Kubernets Service (AKS) ACS deployed all IaaS infrastructure, AKS does offer part of the service as a managed PaaS offering.

Is AKS free?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a free container service that simplifies the deployment, management and operations of Kubernetes as a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestrator service.

Is AKS PaaS or SAAS?

Are k8s secrets secure?

To this end, Kubernetes provides an object called Secret, which you can use to store sensitive data. Placing sensitive info into a secret object does not automatically make it secure. By default, data in Kubernetes secrets is stored in Base64 encoding, which is practically the same as plaintext.

How do I monitor Azure Kubernetes?

Multi-cluster view from Azure Monitor. To view the health status of all Kubernetes clusters deployed, select Monitor from the left pane in the Azure portal. Under the Insights section, select Containers.