Eliminate Standing and Excess Privileges in Your Kubernetes Environment

Enable Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-Enough Access (JEA) for Kubernetes — with Apono support on AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google Cloud GKE.

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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform, originally developed by Google. It automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, providing a framework to run them reliably across clusters of hosts.

Integration Overview:

Apono helps organizations achieve Zero Standing Privileges (ZSP) by eliminating permanent access to privileged systems, cloud environments, databases, and other critical resources.

Through its integration with Kubernetes, Apono continuously discovers all Kubernetes resources — including clusters, namespaces, secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, StatefulSets, ingresses, CronJobs, and Jobs — while enabling security teams to enforce granular, dynamic, and context-aware access policies tailored to specific R&D teams and use cases.
For example:

Admin/DevOps Access for temporary elevated privileges for break-glass scenarios or general maintenance.
Developer Access provides mid-tier permissions for everyday tasks, such as deploying applications and troubleshooting within their own namespace.
Support Engineer Access limited to specific namespaces to retrieve logs, without requiring full cluster visibility.

With just-in-time (JIT) and just-enough-access (JEA) provisioning, access is granted only when needed and automatically revoked, reducing over-privileged accounts, minimizing the attack surface, and maintaining operational agility without compromising security.

Use Cases

JIT and Just Enough Access

Provision real-time access to Kubernetes resources – namespaces, secrets and more.
Ensure right-sized permissions and enforce strict controls on access provisioning.
Minimize unauthorized access risk and reduce the blast radius of security breaches.

Secure Break-glass Access

Grant just-in-time, task-specific access to on-call engineers during incidents.
Scope and revoke access automatically based on context from OnCall and ITSM tools.
Ensure fast, secure incident response while enforcing least-privilege access to your Kubernetes environment.

Risk and Compliance

Achieve Zero Standing Privilege by reducing over-privileged and unused permissions to Kubernetes resources by over 96%.
Protect sensitive data (PII, PHI, PCI) and simplify audits with detailed reporting, anomaly detection, and full access logs.
Meet your customer security demands with granular access controls and full visibility into Kubernetes resource access.

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Integrate Kubernetes with Apono in 3 Simple Step

Discover why companies — from mid-sized enterprises to Fortune 500s — trust Apono for streamlined JIT and JEA access management to their Kubernetes environment.