State-of-the-art Kubernetes platform security and operations (2026) for cloud-managed (EKS/GKE/AKS) and self-hosted clusters (kubeadm, k3s/k0s, Talos). Use when building, operating, hardening, or auditing the cluster PLATFORM layer: control plane and etcd, API server/kubelet, RBAC, admission control
State-of-the-art Kubernetes platform security and operations (2026) for cloud-managed (EKS/GKE/AKS) and self-hosted clusters (kubeadm, k3s/k0s, Talos). Use when building, operating, hardening, or auditing the cluster PLATFORM layer: control plane and etcd, API server/kubelet, RBAC, admission control and policy-as-code, GitOps controllers, operators/CRDs/admission webhooks, Helm/Kustomize supply ch