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title: Gke Workload Security — Invoked Exchange skill
description: Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces. Covers running cluster security audits (`audit_cluster.sh`), configuring Workload Identity Federation (impersonation, KSA/GSA binding, and pod setup), enforcing Network Policies (default-deny and Dataplane V2 logging), isolating high-risk pods inside GKE Sandbox (`gVisor`), enforcing Pod Security Standards (`restricted` labeling), and mounting Secret Manager secrets via CSI (`SecretProviderClass`). Use when auditing cluster security posture, isolating namespaces, applying pod security standards, setting up Workload Identity, or configuring network policies and secret volume mounts. Don't use for cluster-wide control plane security, RBAC hardening, Binary Authorization, Shielded Nodes, or enabling platform-level GKE add-ons (use gke-platform-security instead).
doc_version: "1.0"
last_updated: "2026-07-27T08:13:25.932Z"
canonical: https://invoked.ai/skills/gke-workload-security
---

# Gke Workload Security

Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces. Covers running cluster security audits (`audit_cluster.sh`), configuring Workload Identity Federation (impersonation, KSA/GSA binding, and pod setup), enforcing Network Policies (default-deny and Dataplane V2 logging), isolating high-risk pods inside GKE Sandbox (`gVisor`), enforcing Pod Security Standards (`restricted` labeling), and mounting Secret Manager secrets via CSI (`SecretProviderClass`). Use when auditing cluster security posture, isolating namespaces, applying pod security standards, setting up Workload Identity, or configuring network policies and secret volume mounts. Don't use for cluster-wide control plane security, RBAC hardening, Binary Authorization, Shielded Nodes, or enabling platform-level GKE add-ons (use gke-platform-security instead).

- Shared by: google/skills
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- Tool chain: 
- Add to Invoked: https://invoked.ai/skills/gke-workload-security

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