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Helm and its security options

If you are a Helm user, you perhaps stumbled upon an excellent “Securing Helm installation” write-up in the official repository. If you were not aware of this document, take time to read it, that’s a good starting point.

To summarize, there are four main points to consider when securing your installation:

  1. Role-based access control, or RBAC.
  2. Tiller’s gRPC endpoint and its usage by Helm.
  3. Tiller Release Information.
  4. Helm charts.

Tiller Release Information is something that I want to talk about further.

What is the problem with Tiller releases?

Historically, for each “release,” which is basically any configuration or version update of an application, Tiller creates a ConfigMap containing all operational data.

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