Inside Kubernetes RBAC

Inside Kubernetes RBAC

  • March 22, 2019
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Inside Kubernetes RBAC

Kubernetes is a Container Orchestration Engine designed to host containerized applications on a set of nodes, commonly referred to as a cluster. Using a systems modeling approach, this series aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts. The Kubernetes API is an Http API that provides Create/Read/Update/Delete access to query and modify the Kubernetes Object Store.

Kubernetes supports multiple authentication and authorization strategies to control the access to the API. This post provides a concise, detailed model of Kubernetes’ Role-based Access Control (RBAC), but may not be suitable as introductory material. The model is supported by partial specifications in TLA+.

Conceptually, general authorization may be modeled as a relation hasAccess between a requesting user and a requested operation.

Source: medium.com

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