Zero Trust Engineering — Container and orchestration security

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Capability definition and hierarchyarchimate
Operational activity sequencesecurity
Exception and recovery activity sequencesecurity
Conformant decision branchsecurity
Denied, conditional or degraded branchsecurity
Identity-scoped information exchangec4
Context and decision inputsecurity
Policy authority and evaluationsecurity
Decision distribution and resource mediationsecurity
Enforcement decision evidencesecurity
Policy ownershiparchimate
Security control and protected resourcesecurity
Control and failure risksecurity
Conformance obligationarchimate
Capability assurancearchimate
Resource trust boundarysecurity
Activity-to-capability realizationarchimate
Logical service capability realizationarchimate
Step-up outcomesecurity
Challenge collectionsecurity
Fresh policy evaluationsecurity
Active-session revocationsecurity

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Applications and workloads engineering reference for container and orchestration security, including policy, logical interfaces, recovery and assurance.

Purpose: Container and orchestration security. Domain: Applications and workloads. Family: decision. Scenario trigger: Schedule containerized workload into runtime environment. Input assurance: Image provenance, orchestrator identity and node posture. Evaluation: Evaluate workload admission, privilege and placement constraints. Governing policy: Container image trust and workload placement policy. Resource-side obligation: Permit only signed and constrained deployment workloads. Protected concern: Container orchestration execution environment. Logical interface: Image digest workload spec identity placement risk and admission. Evidence: Admission policy placement and runtime audit records. Failure: Unknown image, privileged configuration or unsafe admission. Required recovery: Block scheduling and roll back unauthorized deployment. Architectural invariant: Scheduling authority cannot bypass independent workload security checks Adoption: replace reference roles with concrete owner-controlled services. Specify exact provider/consumer identities, schema fields and classifications, signal provenance and freshness, idempotency, authorization lifetime, timeout/retry limits, observation and tamper evidence. A denied or failed operation must not silently become a permitted one. Scope: original vendor-neutral, implementation-agnostic technical reference model. Illustrative logical components and behaviors are neither a deployed system nor evidence of regulatory compliance. Package identities remain stable within the package; cross-package semantic reconciliation requires separate explicit registry support.

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Capability
Applications and workloads, Container and orchestration security
Role
Applications and workloads owner
Business Actor
Access-requesting principal
Activity
Schedule containerized workload into runtime environment, Verify: Image provenance, orchestrator identity and node posture, Assess: Evaluate workload admission, privilege and placement constraints, Execute: Permit only signed and constrained deployment workloads, Exception: Unknown image, privileged configuration or unsafe admission, Recover: Block scheduling and roll back unauthorized deployment, Collect additional authorization evidence
Application Component
Image provenance, orchestrator identity and node posture, Evaluate workload admission, privilege and placement constraints, Permit only signed and constrained deployment workloads
Application
Container orchestration execution environment
Policy
Container image trust and workload placement policy
API
Container and orchestration security logical interface
Message/Event Schema
Image digest workload spec identity placement risk and admission
Data Store
Admission policy placement and runtime audit records
Control
Container and orchestration security enforcement assurance
Risk
Unknown image, privileged configuration or unsafe admission risk
Requirement
Scheduling authority cannot bypass independent workload security checks
Measure
Container and orchestration security assurance completeness
Trust Boundary
Container and orchestration security authority boundary
State
Conditionally authorized, Denied or additional proof required, Additional assurance required, Active authorization revoked