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Understanding immutability - Kubernetes Tutorial
From the course: Kubernetes Threat and Attack Detection by Pearson
Understanding immutability
Immutability as a topic really requires that we understand what the words mean. Now, these are scary college words, which in a lot of cases are very simple. But if you don't use these in your everyday life, don't feel embarrassed because nobody really does. But in this case, it's going to explain some of the core tenants that we have around Kubernetes to be able to secure these various pods. So a mutable infrastructure is one that basically allows you to be able to act on an object. So you can take an object, you can change it, you can update it, you can do all kinds of different things. That typically is what's gonna define a mutable infrastructure. So when you deploy, you modify, you upgrade in place, that's your traditional mechanism. We're very familiar with this type of model with virtual machines, as well as servers of all kinds. Now, this is definitely susceptible to a number of issues. One, it can give you a lot of challenges with the concept of software entropy, which as you…
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