Kubernetes has revolutionized how we deploy and manage our applications. Ensuring compliance, security, and operational best practices across a cluster requires robust guardrails. That is where we have Kubernetes Admission Controllers—the gatekeepers of the cluster. Here, we will explore how they work, why we need them, and how we can build some custom policies tailored to our organization’s needs.

Certificates are a necessary evil, and now they’ve gone and changed the rules on us.

Ever needed to check pod logs but couldn’t use kubectl?

A spark of curiosity…

In this session, we will look into buulding foundational knowledge and understanding of the API server and the various ways of interacting with it. We will see how kubectl and other HTTP clients communicate with the API server. We will see demos of how to trace the communications and see the details of HTTP requests. Also, we will see how we can look up the API details so that we can write our own API requests from scratch.