Kubernetes: RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)

Least Privilege Is the Only Sustainable Privilege.

Kubernetes is powerful—but without proper access control, it’s also dangerous.

RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) is the mechanism Kubernetes uses to decide:

• Who can access the cluster

• What they can do

• Where they can do it

Misconfigured RBAC is a leading cause of:

• accidental outages

• security incidents

• over-privileged automation

• painful audits

This article explains …