I was given read access to a mid-sized production Kubernetes cluster — 3 namespaces, ~40 workloads, running on EKS. No insider knowledge. Just tools, curiosity, and 60 minutes. Here’s everything I found. The Setup The cluster belonged to a startup that had been running Kubernetes in production for about 18 months. They had a dedicated … Read more
Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most critical security layers in any Kubernetes cluster because it decides who can perform which actions on which resources. In many organizations, RBAC is the difference between “one compromised account destroys the cluster” and “blast radius is limited to a small, controlled scope.” This blog will take … Read more
If you’ve worked with Kubernetes long enough, you already know this truth: Most Kubernetes issues don’t start in the cluster. They start in YAML. A missing resource limit.A privileged container left unnoticed.No readiness probe, no liveness probe. Everything looks fine… until it isn’t. That’s exactly the problem K8sGuardian Engine is built to solve. K8sGuardian Engine … Read more
Introduction Air-gapped environments are common in regulated industries (defense, banking, pharma) where clusters and CI/CD systems cannot talk directly to the public internet. The challenge is to keep development velocity without sacrificing security: builds must run, images must be scanned and signed, and artifacts must be available inside the offline environment — all while keeping … Read more