Zero Trust Engineering — Container and orchestration security
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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