Making Kubernetes resilience with nginx+

Kubernetes is a one stop solution for multiple robust limitations that can make an application from a vulnerable one to high fault tolerant one within a single click, but that too had some unavoidable compliance within it.

yeah! we are talking about the security compromises of Kubernetes which should be a major concern while deploying and managing applications, there is no outcome in a product that comes with more tightened security within the development but not mapped with the overlying deployment environment.

No worries since all kind of software will always have a helping hand towards its major loopholes Kubernetes also has its own friend to address this concern with no exceptions and that's our well-known tool nginx.

Major features provided by nginx plus to cover these problems are

1. Nginx Ingress and egress tier controllers

2. Nginx WAF

3. Nginx service mesh

Nginx Ingress and egress tiers

We can simply breakdown as an entry point security for out deployment environment. It offers real course grained access control to our application boundary .The real duty of the nginx ingress control is to act as a firewall for our Kubernetes cluster it basically checks the potential security compliance and restricts it from degrading our application

Nginx WAF

Abbreviated as Web application firewall . As the name suggests firewall it also has a similar function in its process while the ingress controller provides protection from external attacks it always sacrifices itself to the replicas and pods to maintain a strong encrypted and fine grained access control.

Nginx service mesh

It is like a supervisor to these WAF's which controls their process and intercommunication privacy and to detect an attack and prevent from it . since service of Kubernetes had a confined security features which may not compatible for modern attacks the primary function of this nginx service mesh is to fill the gap and make more secure of that particular environment

so these are three tier security provided by nginx plus to make a Kubernetes as a strong defender to these potential intruders.