You likely know that Services are how Kubernetes provides load balancing, exposing an application running on a set of Pods as a network service, and providing a single DNS name for that application.

There are many reasons to love Kubernetes. It’s open source. It’s incredibly scalable and flexible. And it turns out to be a great way to deploy hybrid cloud and multi-cloud workloads.

Part of the reason why securing Kubernetes can be challenging is that Kubernetes isn’t a single, simple framework. It’s a complex, multi-layered beast.