Book

Kubernetes Network Policies Done the Right Way by Isovalent

Secure your Kubernetes clusters with practical network policy insights

Learn how to secure Kubernetes workloads with "Kubernetes Network Policies Done the Right Way." This practical guide covers Zero Trust, effective network policy design, and tools like Cilium and Hubble to help you protect and optimize your infrastructure. It is a must-read for platform teams and decision-makers.

Key Topics:

  • Understanding Network Policies: What they are, their role in securing workloads, and overcoming adoption challenges.
  • Unified Security with Cilium: Secure communication, external access control, and API protection.
  • Policy Approaches: Managing multi-tenancy, mitigating exposure risks, and reducing unnecessary access.
  • Strategic Design: Starting with broad policies, prioritizing namespaces, and implementing cluster-wide guardrails.
  • Practical Tools: Adopting Zero Trust, leveraging Hubble for observability, and using enterprise dashboards for policy management.

Learn how to secure Kubernetes workloads with "Kubernetes Network Policies Done the Right Way." This practical guide covers Zero Trust, effective network policy design, and tools like Cilium and Hubble to help you protect and optimize your infrastructure. It is a must-read for platform teams and decision-makers.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

    Dean Lewis is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent - the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium. Dean had a varied background working in the technology fields, from support to operations to architectural design and delivery at IT Solutions Providers based in the UK, before moving to VMware and focusing on cloud management and cloud native, which remains as his primary focus. You can find Dean in the past and present speaking at various Technology User Groups and Industry Conferences, as well as his personal blog.

  • Raymond de Jong, Field CTO

    Raymond de Jong is Field CTO for EMEA at Isovalent and co-author of the book "Kubernetes Network Policies Done the Right Way by Isovalent". In this role, he is supporting and enabling customers and partners to be successful with Cilium in their mission-critical environments. Leveraging almost a decade of experience in Software Defined Networking he is passionate about learning customer use-cases and designing solutions to meet their requirements. When not working, Raymond enjoys playing tennis, riding bikes, gaming, and music playing the guitar or piano.