What you'll learn

Organizations adopting Kubernetes often face challenges in securing the entire application delivery pipeline from code to cluster. In this course, Implementing Secure Container Pipelines on Azure AKS, you’ll learn to implement a secure AKS-based CI/CD pipeline using Azure-native tools and best practices. First, you’ll explore how to enforce policy and identity safeguards by configuring AKS, Azure Policy, and Gatekeeper to ensure compliance from the start of the development process. Next, you’ll discover how to set up a secure development environment using Visual Studio Code, GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry, and Helm to automate secure builds and deployments with guardrails such as scanning tools and workload identity federation. Finally, you’ll learn how to bring all these components together to deliver secure workloads using GitOps principles, integrate runtime security and observability, and complete a real-world challenge lab that tests your end-to-end DevSecOps capabilities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of implementing Secure Container Pipelines on Azure AKS needed to design, implement, and maintain a secure, automated CI/CD pipeline for containerized workloads in Azure.