Kubernetes Goat - Vulnerable by Design Kubernetes Cluster Environment by Madhu Akula

Madhu Akula introduces Kubernetes Goat, an open-source, intentionally vulnerable-by-design Kubernetes cluster environment created for learning, testing, and demonstrating cloud-native security concepts. The project provides hands-on scenarios mapped to real-world threats encountered in production container deployments.

Akula walks through setting up the environment using Katacoda and local clusters, demonstrating common attack scenarios including container breakouts, sensitive secret exposures, SSRF within containerized microservices, and misconfigured RBAC permissions. He provides guided exploitation workflows and defensive remediation steps, showing practitioners how to identify architectural flaws and improve their organization's cloud-native infrastructure security posture.

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