AKS Workload Security

Security is paramount when running containerized workloads in production. This section covers essential security practices and tools for protecting your AKS clusters and the applications running within them.

You’ll learn about:

• Service Accounts: Understanding Kubernetes service accounts and their role in workload authentication
• Workload Identity: Implementing Azure AD Workload Identity for secure access to Azure resources
• Network Policies: Controlling traffic flow between pods and namespaces with network segmentation
• Network Egress: Managing and securing outbound network traffic from your cluster
• Pod Security Admission: Implementing pod security standards to enforce security policies
• Azure Policy for AKS: Using Azure Policy to enforce governance and compliance across your clusters
• Microsoft Defender for Containers: Leveraging Azure’s native security monitoring and threat detection

By the end of this section, you’ll understand how to implement defense-in-depth security strategies for your Kubernetes workloads on Azure.