One of the key features of our container management platform, Pipeline is its ability to create multi- and hybrid-cloud Kubernetes environments using cloud provider-managed K8s or our own CNCF certified Kubernetes distribution, PKE. Recently, customers have been asking for a way to bring their existing Kubernetes clusters (upstream or other distributions) under Pipeline’s management, in order to benefit from the features our platform offers. During the peer review of our new cluster import feature, we realized the potential security risk created by the common practice of sharing kubeconfig files.