{"id":30606,"date":"2022-07-13T22:38:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T22:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=30606"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:45:21","slug":"kubernetes-cks-understanding-kubernetes-pki-certificates-security-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/kubernetes-cks-understanding-kubernetes-pki-certificates-security-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubernetes CKS: Understanding Kubernetes PKI certificates &#038; Security Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kubernetes requires PKI certificates for authentication over TLS. If you install Kubernetes with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/docs\/reference\/setup-tools\/kubeadm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kubeadm<\/a>, the certificates that your cluster requires are automatically generated. You can also generate your own certificates &#8212; for example, to keep your private keys more secure by not storing them on the API server. This page explains the certificates that your cluster requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/docs\/setup\/best-practices\/certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/docs\/setup\/best-practices\/certificates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kubernetes requires PKI certificates for authentication over TLS. If you install Kubernetes with\u00a0kubeadm, the certificates that your cluster requires are automatically generated. You can also generate your own certificates &#8212;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kubernetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30607,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions\/30607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}