GKE Cluster Audit

Question

1. What are the points to be reviewed while auditing a GKE cluster? We have a production cluster and I would like to what all points need to be reviewed while auditing my GKE cluster. What needs to be configured/removed for better security and HA.

Answer 1

This is a very broad topic.

Short answer(Main points):

• Apply Least privilege principle for IAM entities and RBAC entities
• Enable binary authorizarion
• Limit privileges on Containers
• Enable image scanner
• Use the Secret Manager
• Create private clusters when possible
• Spread your work nodes between AZs

But I strongly recommend you verify Google official docs:

https://cloud.google.com/kube.netes-engine/docs/concepts/security-overview#node_upgrades

See ya