Kubernetes Cluster guardrails using Open Policy Agent / Gatekeeper

Enforcing best practices on Kubernetes clusters is a must - such as a namespace should have specific labels, containers should include resource limits, running containers as a non-root user, etc. Traditionally these best practices are documented and enforced on users to follow, continuous auditing is done to ensure the workload meets all the best practices. Open Policy Agent(OPA) changes the way how we can enforce these policies on the cluster for users. In this Tech-Talk, we will cover -

What is an Open Policy Agent(OPA)
OPA implementation in Kubernetes
Walk-through most common policies
Writing a custom policy
Additional use-cases

Speaker:

Allen

Oster

Curriculum Development Manager

Laurel

Dafe

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Redtech

Aryan

Parashar

Champion

Lens

Patrick

Hubbard

Technical Product Marketing Director

ScienceLogic

Gavin

Cohen

VP of AI Product Management

ScienceLogic

Marcus

Johansson

Jamie

Abrahams

Bryan

Gruneberg

Consulting Solution Architect

amazee.io

Alanna

Burke

Developer Advocate

Amazee

Michael

Schmid

Head of Technology

amazee.io

Toby

Bellwood

Product Lead

amazee.io

Jussi

Nummelin

Senior Principal Engineer

Mirantis

Peter

Razumovsky

Senior Software Engineer

Mirantis

David

Murphy

Principal Solutions Engineer

Upbound

Wassim

Soualhi

Senior Solutions Architect

Jas

Atwal

Senior Solutions Architect

Martin

Nirtl

Solution Architect

Toby

Goodlock

Solution Architect

Mirantis

Julian

Hennig

Senior Solutions Architect GSA Pre-Sales

Mirantis

Chip

Zoller

Technical Product Manager

Nirmata

Anusha

Hegde

Technical Product Manager

Nirmata

Kevin Patrick

Hannon

Open Source Software Engineer

G Research Open Source

Zack

Fanelle

Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

Mirantis Inc

Roman

Kuzmin

DevOps engineer

Mirantis

Daniel

Virassamy

Cloud Solutions Architect

Mirantis

Eric

Smalling

Sr. Developer Advocate

Snyc

Mario

Sarcher

Engineering Manager, Lens

Mirantis Inc

Barak

Brudo

Developer Relations Advocate

Scribe Security

Kamal

Bhaskar

Solution Architect

Mirantis Inc

Karen

Almog

Architect @k0sproject

Mirantis Inc

Edward

Ionel

Developer Advocacy

Mirantis

Pratik

Ghodekar

DevOps Engineer

Mirantis

Sugesh

Nair

DevOps Engineer

Mirantis

Kevin

Ng

Solution Architect

Mirantis Inc

Eric

Gregory

Senior Technical Writer

Mirantis

Connor

Willhelm

DevOps Engineer - DevOpsCare

Mirantis

Nick

Chase

Director, Technical Marketing

Mirantis

Jonathan

Kaftzan

VP Marketing & Business Development

ARMO

Amir

Malka

Senior Software Engineer

ARMO

Avinash

Desireddy

Sr. Solutions Architect

Mirantis Inc.