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Container Cluster Hardening Sprint

We close the default security gaps in a live cluster: network policies, RBAC, resource limits, secrets and image provenance.

Timeline
15 working days
Price
₹34,999 incl. GST
Reference
NP-CLD-104
Ownership
Delivered into accounts you own

Overview

What this engagement is

A cluster that runs is not necessarily a cluster that is secure. By default, any workload can reach any other, containers run as root, resource usage is unbounded and secrets sit in the cluster datastore with nothing more than base64 encoding. We work through your live managed cluster, on whichever cloud it runs, and close these gaps without interrupting your workloads. Every change is committed as a manifest in your repository, so the hardened configuration is reviewable and repeatable rather than a series of commands someone once typed.

Deliverables

What you receive

7 items
  • Default-deny network policies with explicit allow rules for each namespace
  • RBAC review with service accounts limited to what each workload requires
  • Workload security standards enforced, including non-root users and read-only filesystems
  • CPU and memory requests and limits set from observed usage
  • Secrets moved to a managed secrets store with automated synchronisation
  • Image scanning in the pipeline with a policy for critical findings
  • Findings report covering residual risks and deliberate exclusions

Outcomes

What changes once it ships

A compromised container can no longer move freely through the cluster

Resource-hungry workloads stop starving their neighbours

Clear evidence to present during a customer security review

Process

How the 4 stages run

  1. Baseline

    An automated benchmark scan and a manual review are run against the CIS benchmarks

  2. Prioritise

    Findings are ranked by exploitability and potential impact

  3. Remediate

    Changes applied one namespace at a time, staging before production

  4. Verify

    Re-scan, confirm workload health and hand over the manifests

A strong fit for

  • Clusters assembled quickly during a migration and never revisited
  • Teams answering a security questionnaire from an enterprise customer
  • Platforms where a single compromised container could reach the database

What we need from you

  • Cluster admin access and a staging cluster that closely mirrors production
  • Named owners for each workload to answer questions about traffic
  • A change window for enforcing the network policies

You share these through the brief that opens in your client dashboard once payment is confirmed. The timeline starts when they arrive.

Answers

Questions about this engagement

We map real traffic before enforcing anything and roll out in audit mode first, so any issues surface in staging.
For verification, yes, through an account you create and revoke afterwards. You review every change before it is applied.
No, although self-managed control planes add scope. Please tell us what you run before ordering.

This is a digital service — nothing is shipped. Work is delivered to the timeline above, into systems you control, and our refund terms explain what happens if a date is missed.

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