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Secrets, the Detour and Hardening

Part XI closes out at Secrets and the holes still left. We read etcd directly to confirm Secrets are encrypted at-rest since Article 5, then build a real detour: a ServiceAccount with no permission to read a Secret still extracts its value by creating a pod that mounts that Secret and reading the log. The article ends with a table of hardening steps for a self-built cluster — which are done in the series, which are still missing.