Phase 3 · Ch 6 — Hardened Cluster Security & State Management

Chapter 6: Hardened Cluster Security & State Management

Coming soon. This chapter covers RBAC least privilege, zero-trust NetworkPolicies, external secrets integration, and stateful workload orchestration with disaster recovery.

Planned Topics

  • Identity & Access: Least Privilege RBAC using Role, ClusterRole, RoleBinding, ClusterRoleBinding, ServiceAccount isolation
  • Zero-Trust Networking: Strict default-deny Ingress and Egress NetworkPolicies
  • Cloud-Scale Secrets: External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault
  • Stateful Workloads: HA PostgreSQL/Redis on StatefulSets, volume claim templates, Velero backup and DR
Phase 3 · Ch 5 — Enterprise Cluster Infrastructure & NetworkingPhase 4 · Ch 7 — Next-Generation Traffic & Governance