Unit 9 Lab - Certificate and Key Madness

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Setting up Rsyslog with TLS

  1. Complete the lab: https://killercoda.com/het-tanis/course/Linux-Labs/211-setting-up-rsyslog-with-tls

Review Solving the Bottom Turtle

  1. Review pages 41-48 of https://spiffe.io/pdf/Solving-the-bottom-turtle-SPIFFE-SPIRE-Book.pdf
    • Does the diagram on page 44 make sense to you for what you did with a certificate authority in this lab?

SSH – Public and Private key pairs

  1. Complete the lab: https://killercoda.com/het-tanis/course/Linux-Labs/212-public-private-keys-with-ssh
    • What is the significance of the permission settings that you saw on the generated public and private key pairs?

Digging Deeper challenge (not required for finishing lab)

  1. Complete the following labs and see if they reinforce any of your understanding of certificates with the use of Kubernetes.

  2. Read the rest of https://spiffe.io/pdf/Solving-the-bottom-turtle-SPIFFE-SPIRE-Book.pdf