Addressing Containerization Challenges in Google Kubernetes Engine: The GKE Auth Proxy

Abstract

As many teams begin to explore containerizing their applications, they often run into challenges while running their applications in the cloud. Specifically, while running containerized workloads on GKE, many users find it challenging to create GKE clusters due to security guardrails in place that prevent users from creating public-facing nodes or control planes. Further, non-transitive peering makes it difficult for users to directly communicate with GKE control planes. Nevertheless, users can create a bastion host or a GKE Auth proxy inside the project to address this challenge.