SOTA Kubernetes Platform Security & Operations

Purpose

Engineer and audit the Kubernetes platform so that a compromised workload, a hostile chart, a leaked token, or a malicious controller cannot pivot to cluster-admin, read every Secret, or take the cluster down. This skill owns the layer above the pod: control plane and etcd, API server and kubelet hardening, RBAC and ServiceAccount identity, admission control and policy-as-code, GitOps controllers, operators/CRDs and admission webhooks, Helm/Kustomize at admission, multi-tenancy boundaries, cluster lifecycle, and K8s audit logging.