Thanks to the gradual maturation of Istio over its last few of releases, it is now possible to run control plane components without root privileges. We often use Pod Security Policies (PSPs) in Kubernetes to ensure that pods run with only restricted privileges. In this post, we’ll discuss how to run Istio’s control plane components with as few privileges as possible, using restricted PSPs and the open source Banzai Cloud Istio operator.

Check out Backyards in action on your own clusters! Register for a free version Want to know more? Get in touch with us, or delve into the details of the latest release. Or just take a look at some of the Istio features that Backyards automates and simplifies for you, and which we’ve already blogged about. At Banzai Cloud we are building a feature rich enterprise-grade application and devops container management platform, called Pipeline and a CNCF certified Kubernetes distribution, PKE.