Secrets Management at Scale with Vault & Rancher 24. June Robert de Bock Senior DevOps Engineer Adfinis robert.debock@adfinis.com Kapil Arora Senior Solution Engineer HashiCorp kapil@hashicorp.com Infrastructure Management (Run & Manage) GitOps Continuous Delivery Cluster Templates & Config Enforcement K8s Version Management Node Pool Management Cluster Provisioning & Lifecycle Management Platform Amazon EKS Azure AKS Google GKE Cloud Datacenter Edge Branch Dev Secret Management in Kubernetes 16 17 18 Secret Management Challenges ● Secrets sprawl ● Secrets rotation ● X.509 certificates, SSH

............................................................................ 6 1.3.3 Secret Management .............................................................................................. ......................................................................... 6 1.3.5 Container Management and Scaling ......................................................................... 6 1.3.6 ................ 7 1.3.9 Resource Monitoring ................................................................................................ 7 1.3.10 Log Management ............................

Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platforms Red Hat OpenShift 4.9, VMware Tanzu 1.4, Google Anthos 1.10 and SUSE Rancher 2.6 A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platforms Copyright ........................................ 39 A Buyer’s Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platforms Copyright © SUSE 2022 3 1 Executive Summary Organizations modernizing their infrastructure lack of central visibility, inconsistent security practices and complex management processes. Therefore, Kubernetes management platforms need to confidently deliver: • Simplified Cluster Operations:

Cloud Native Contrail Networking Installation and Life Cycle Management Guide for Rancher RKE2 Published 2023-09-08 Juniper Networks, Inc. 1133 Innovation Way Sunnyvale, California 94089 USA 408-745-2000 this publication without notice. Cloud Native Contrail Networking Installation and Life Cycle Management Guide for Rancher RKE2 Copyright © 2023 Juniper Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. The information Amazon EKS • Rancher RKE2 Contrail Networking is an SDN solution that automates the creation and management of virtualized networks to connect, isolate, and secure cloud workloads and services seamlessly

(Manual) 5.3.2 Ensure that all Namespaces have Network Policies defined (Automated) 5.4 Secrets Management 5.4.1 Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual) 5.4.2 Consider echo $result) resource_count=$(kubectl get $kind $name -n $ns -o json | jq -r '.rules[] | select(.resources[] != "podsecuritypolicies")' | wc -l) if [[ ${resource_count} -gt 0 ]]; then Returned Value: true CIS 1.6 Benchmark - Self-Assessment Guide - Rancher v2.5.4 127 5.4 Secrets Management 5.4.1 Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Manual) Result: warn

Application Template ※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※※※ CI/CD Pipeline ※※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※※ Application Lifecycle Management ※※※※※ ※ ※ Metering & Billing ※※※※※ ※ ※ Grayscale Release ※※※※※ ※※※ ※※※ 4 Traffic Governance Multi-cluster Management ※※※※ ※※※ ※※※※※ Edge Computing ※※※※※ ※※ ※※※※※ Network ※※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※※※ Storage ※※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※※※※ Network Policy and Management ※※※※※ ※※※※※ ※※※ Multi-tenant Management ※※※※ forwarding to multiple storage backends supported Unified event query and management Unified event query and management Alerting Built-in OpenShift CLI Several built-in 7 multi-dimensional alerting

development. Kubernetes orchestration provides capabilities such as auto scaling, security, and management of containerized applications. A persistent and stable data store is required to run containerized can survive the lifetime of a pod or the node it is running on. SUSE Rancher is a Kubernetes management platform that simplifies the cluster installation and operations, whether they are on-premises systems, hypervisors, and container platforms with a unified underlying infrastructure platform and management. It can also support heterogeneous workloads with varying requirements on a flexible shared infrastructure

Micro SLE Extensions SUSE Manager SUSE Linux Enterprise Compliance Security Availability Management The most adaptable Linux operating system Other Linux Datacenter Edge Block Storage Container provisioning time - from hours to minutes — 35% reduction in cloud costs — 35% reduction in management time “Provisioning a new environment now takes a matter of minutes, whereas before it would take data platform is used by SunnyVision as the basis for its database as a service (DBaaS) “Secrets management has always been one of the most difficult issues in Kubernetes,” Romuald Vandepoel, Principal

name: system:authenticated Reconfigure the cluster: rke up --config cluster.yml 3.1 - Rancher Management Control Plane Installation 3.1.1 - Disable the local cluster option Profile Applicability Level enabled in the Rancher UI, a user has access to all elements of the system, including the Rancher management server itself. Disabling the local cluster is a defense in depth measure and removes the possible com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/ha/helm-rancher/chart-options/#advanced-options 3.2 - Rancher Management Control Plane Authentication 3.2.1 - Change the local admin password from the default value Profile

Cryptography 3/14/2007 [SP 800-57 P1 r5] NIST SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev. 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General 5/4/2020 [SP 800-67 r2] NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 2, Recommendation for the Triple .........................................................9 7 Cryptographic Algorithms & Key Management ................................................................10 7.1 Approved Cryptographic .................................................................. 11 7.4 Cryptographic Key Management ............................................................................................ 12