Authentication And Authorization In Red Hat Openshift And Microservices Architectures
Red Hat News, Tuesday, August 20th, 2024
One of the key components of a container-based architecture is security.
There are many facets to it (just have a look at the list of topics in the official OpenShift documentation here), but some of the most basic requirements are authentication and authorization. In this article, I explain how authentication and authorization work in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. I cover interactions between the different layers of a Kubernetes ecosystem, including the infrastructure layer, Kubernetes layer, and the containerized applications layer.