# Secure Access to Kubernetes API.

DevFeed: [Secure Access to Kubernetes API.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/secure-access-to-kubernetes-api-29739.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-api-access-security/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [api server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-server.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [api-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-server.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [kubernetes-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes-security.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains why securing the Kubernetes API is central to cluster security and presents best practices for hardening API access control. It covers authentication, authorization, and admission control, with relevance to both self-managed clusters and managed services such as AWS EKS and GCP Kubernetes Engine.

## Source excerpt

Securing the Kubernetes API server is one of the most critical controls for resilient production clusters, as it enables complete runtime configuration and control.