Kiam: Iterating for Security and Reliability

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Kiam: Iterating for Security and Reliability

Kiam: Iterating for Security and ReliabilityPaul InglesBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMay 1Kiam bridges Kubernetes’ Pods with Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM). It makes it easy to assign short-lived AWS security credentials to your application. We created Kiam in 2017 to quickly address correctness issues we had running kube2iam in our production clusters.

We’ve made a number of changes to it’s original design to make it more secure, reliable and easier to operate. This article covers a little of the story that led to us creating Kiam and more about what makes it novel. Kiam bridges Kubernetes’ Pods with Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM).

It makes it easy to assign short-lived AWS security credentials to your application. We created Kiam in 2017 to quickly address correctness issues we had running kube2iam in our production clusters. We’ve made a number of changes to it’s original design to make it more secure, reliable and easier to operate.

This article covers a little of the story that led to us creating Kiam and more about what makes it novel.

Source: medium.com