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Understanding platform binary integrity

Understanding platform binary integrity - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Understanding platform binary integrity

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- So you just downloaded something off the internet. You've got this latest version of Kubernetes. You want to go ahead and deploy it in your platform, but you don't know if it's legitimate. So why would verifying Kubernetes binary checksums be such a good idea? Well, first of all, it helps to ensure that all of the downloaded binaries that you have haven't been corrupted from the download process or tampered with, which is crucial for keeping malware out of your system. It also allows you to be able to ensure that you're running the official unmodified Kubernetes code straight from the source. You can also use it to be able to identify if any of the binaries have changed from the known baselines, anything that allows you to be able to, you know, integrate that verification as well into automation. So if you're going to install scripts or use it to be able to download different components, you can put this in as part of an automated check in the scripts that you're creating for…

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