Outcome 1
A clear mental model for Google-style centralized login across many Kubernetes products
Free course
Centralized Authentication and Authorization with Envoy
Build a Google-style one-login platform for Kubernetes products using plain Envoy, JWT/JWKS, external authorization, SSO, service tokens, and federated credentials.
Outcomes
What you will be able to build and explain
Each outcome is tied to architecture, operational judgement, or a concrete deployment habit you can reuse at work.
Outcome 2
A plain Envoy front-door architecture with listeners, routes, clusters, and HTTP filters
Outcome 3
JWT and JWKS validation rules for API routes with issuer, audience, expiry, and signature checks
Outcome 4
An SSO design that uses Envoy as enforcement while an IdP and auth service handle OIDC or SAML login
Outcome 5
A route strategy for access tokens, service tokens, and federated credentials such as governed data access
Outcome 6
A safe identity header contract that products can trust without accepting spoofed client headers
Outcome 7
A production checklist for latency, scaling, failure modes, audit logs, rollout, rollback, and security review
Learning loop
Learn the model, practice the decision, keep the checklist
A beginner-to-production course for engineers who need one consistent auth layer across many Kubernetes products. You will start with the explicit Google, Gmail, and YouTube mental model, then build toward plain Envoy routing, JWT/JWKS validation, OIDC/SAML SSO delegation, service tokens, access tokens, federated credentials, authorization boundaries, and production reliability.
01
Inspect the architecture
Start every module with the system model: components, trust boundaries, data flow, and the production problem it solves.
02
Practice the failure mode
Labs and exercises focus on the operational edge cases that separate tutorial knowledge from production confidence.
03
Ship with judgement
Production notes, common mistakes, and tradeoffs make the course useful when you are designing or reviewing real systems.
Good fit
Who should take this course?
This course is written for engineers who need practical production context, not abstract theory.
Backend engineers building internal products that need shared login and API access
Platform engineers designing an internal developer platform on Kubernetes
Security engineers reviewing centralized authentication and authorization designs
DevOps engineers operating Envoy, Kubernetes gateways, and identity-aware routing
Data platform engineers protecting data tools with SSO, tokens, and federated credentials
Beginners who know basic HTTP and Kubernetes services but need clear auth vocabulary
Curriculum
Full course path
8 modules, 8 inline exercises, 12+ hours of production-focused learning.
Instructor
Vishal Anand
Senior Product Engineer & Tech Lead
Creator of CodersSecret and author of production-focused courses on security, Kubernetes, distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and data platforms. Vishal teaches with concrete architecture diagrams, small examples, and operational tradeoffs.
FAQ
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