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Athenz: Service Identity and Access Control

by Shriira Press

A practical, in-depth guide to Athenz, the open-source platform for service authentication and fine-grained, role-based access control. Learn how Athenz secures dynamic infrastructure with identity instead of network location: the ZMS and ZTS architecture, domains, roles and policies (RBAC), X.509 service identity and certificate bootstrapping, mutual TLS and tokens, authorization and least privilege, Kubernetes and multi-cloud integration, and operating Athenz as critical zero-trust security infrastructure.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Athenz Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Identity and Access in Dynamic Infrastructure
4. 4Chapter 3 — Architecture
5. 5Chapter 4 — Domains, Roles, and Policies
6. 6Chapter 5 — Service Identity and X.509 Certificates
7. 7Chapter 6 — Authentication — Mutual TLS and Tokens
8. 8Chapter 7 — Authorization — Access Decisions
9. 9Chapter 8 — Athenz in Kubernetes and the Cloud
10. 10Chapter 9 — Operations and Observability
11. 11Chapter 10 — Athenz in Practice