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- Falco is a tool that can be used to monitor actions taken on cluster nodes, such as reading/writing files, etc.
- A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication
- It can handle service discovery, load balancing, encryption, etc.
- Istio is a popular service mesh
- Istio is a service mesh that provides a way to control how microservices share data with each other
- Istio works with Kubernetes and traditional workloads
- Istio uses a high-performance proxy service called Envoy to manage traffic between services
- You can use
openssl to generate certificates for the cluster
- Generate keys:
openssl genrsa -out my.key 2048
- Create a CSR:
openssl req -new -key my.key -sub "/CN=KUBERNETES-CA" -out ca.csr
- Sign certificates:
openss x509 -req -in ca.csr -signkey my.key -out ca.crt