Configuring Rapid7 agents in GKE clusters

The Rapid7 Insight Platform gives you a broad spectrum of solutions for cloud security, vulnerability risk management, threat detection and response, and threat intelligence.

It provides the below features in container security

• Discover which assets are acting as container hosts in your environment.
• Increase the visibility of where your container hosts live so you can manage your container problems.
• Identify your running or stopped containers.
• Identify container hosts that do not comply with CIS benchmarks for common OSes or comply with the official Docker CIS benchmark.
• Provide visibility and risk associated with the packages and layers of a container.
• Perform vulnerability assessment on the container image as it is built and deployed.
• Provide suggestions for remediation.

In this post, we are going to see how we can configure access to images in the Google container registry from rapid7 platform and deploy the rapid7 agents in Google Kubernetes Engine

Access to Google container registry:

You can provide access to the Google container registry by creating a service account in the required google cloud project with…