A Raccoon And a Group Of Turtles Secure Clusters Together!

How does a Raccoon and a bunch of Turtles find common ground? Answer: You find a Goose who makes space where both feel welcome. In this session, Pushkar Joglekar and Naadir Jeewa will talk about how a multi-year collaboration where Kubernetes SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Security & TAG Security came together to write the first community driven self-assessment of a Kubernetes sub-project: Cluster API. The session will cover how it all started from the basics with data flow diagrams to understand the internals of the project, then using that to model threats and assess next steps. Next, they will discuss challenges faced doing this exercise with folks around the globe (5 countries), limited maintainer time, doing our best to avoid zoom fatigue while trying and at times failing to be async first. Finally they will talk about what is happening with the findings from this exercise and how they plan to apply the lessons learnt from this exercise to future self-assessments across all Kubernetes sub-projects. Come for the stories from the animal kingdom; Stay for the real stories of humans bringing their best self to break some new ground in the form of community driven security improvements!