EKS Security Checklist: 10 Best Practices for a Secure Cluster

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that allows teams to orchestrate their containers without managing the control plane or infrastructure. AWS is responsible for managing the security of its cloud services, while customers oversee the security of their workloads. EKS security best practices include isolating Kubernetes nodes, strengthening authentication and authorization, using RBAC, avoiding keeping secrets in environment variables, not running containers in privileged mode, disabling unsafe proc mounts, building a rolling update strategy, and more. Automation can help prioritize security issues and optimize cluster security.