Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Encrypt Kubernetes secrets with IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services

This was recently authored by a couple of my IBM colleagues: -

Encrypt Kubernetes secrets with IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services

Create a secret in Kubernetes, create a root key in Hyper Protect Crypto Services, and enable KMS encryption in Kubernetes

This tutorial shows you how to encrypt your Kubernetes secrets using IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services as the KMS provider. You'll learn how to create a secret in IBM Cloud Kubernetes, create a root key in Hyper Protect Crypto Services, and encrypt the secrets and etcd component of your Kubernetes master with the root key in your Hyper Protect Crypto Services instance.

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