Should we apply SSL/TLS connection between service in Kubernetes

2/21/2022

I'm developing gRPC microservices that running in Kubernetes cluster with insecure connection.

Should we apply SSL/TLS connection between service in Kubernetes?

But anyway, this might be overkill to apply TLS for internal connection in k8s cluster.

-- iamcmnut
kubernetes
ssl

1 Answer

2/21/2022

This solely depends on what level of security you want to have. If you decide to use mTLS between services, this is typically implemented using a "service mesh", e.g. Istio.

-- Jonas
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