Kubernetes Security Engineering with Python: Policy Automation, Runtime Defense, and Cloud-Native Threat Detection - Softcover

Kanegi, Takehiro

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798197260918

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

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Kubernetes security requires more than basic cluster hardening. Modern cloud-native systems need automated policy enforcement, runtime monitoring, threat detection, and repeatable engineering workflows that can scale across complex infrastructure.

Kubernetes Security Engineering with Python is a practical guide to building security-focused automation for Kubernetes environments. The book shows how Python can be used to inspect cluster configurations, analyze workloads, enforce security policies, detect risky runtime behavior, and support cloud-native defense workflows.

Readers will learn how to approach Kubernetes security as an engineering discipline, connecting policy, observability, automation, and detection into a structured security program. Topics include Kubernetes architecture from a security perspective, pod and workload risk analysis, RBAC review, admission control concepts, policy-as-code workflows, runtime defense patterns, container image risk, cloud-native logging, and Python-based security tooling.

Designed for security engineers, DevSecOps practitioners, platform engineers, cloud engineers, and advanced Python users, this book provides a clear framework for securing Kubernetes systems through practical automation and defensive engineering.

Rather than relying on manual reviews or disconnected tools, readers will learn how to build repeatable Python workflows that support stronger Kubernetes security across development, deployment, and production environments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798197260918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Schwartz Alice