Building upon the previous session on AKS networking best practices, we'll learn about securing your cluster and the underlying compute infrastructure, as well as Azure platform integrations to secure your workloads.

Important: this session is part of 4-part series on Azure Kubernetes Service AKS. Please visit the series overview to learn about and register for all four sessions.

Topics Covered
Please note network security is covered in part 1 of this series.

• Securing Kubernetes, control plane vs data plane, cluster-level security vs - application-level security
• Node security (compute isolation)
• Kubernetes secrets, Azure Key Vault integration
• Access & Identity, role-based access control (RBAC) best practices, Azure workload identities
• Container security, run time security, container registry security, Azure Defender for - Containers integration

Learning Objectives
In this session, you will learn how to:

• Apply role-based access control to cluster level and application level components
• Secure secrets and optimize secrets management with Azure Key Vault integration
• Secure container images and run time with Microsoft Defender for Containers.

Pre-requisite: Basic Kubernetes knowledge required

• Basic understanding of Azure as a platform
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals and core concepts.
  Refer to this Microsoft learn module on Introduction to Kubernetes, especially how Kubernetes works lesson before joining this session.

Intended Audience
This series is relevant for all technical roles, e.g. architects, application engineers, as well as platform and operations engineers.

Engage live with FastTrack engineers
Each session in this AKS series includes a dedicated anonymous Q&A.

#fasttrack-azure This event is not recorded so feel free to come off mute and ask questions directly to the engineers. Check out more FastTrack events