Paper Title

ZERO TRUST ARCHITECTURE IN GITOPS: AN IDENTITY-CENTRIC APPROACH TO CLOUD DEPLOYMENT SECURITY

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Shiva Kumar

Keywords

  • zero trust
  • gitops
  • kubernetes
  • identity management
  • cloud security
  • policy-as-code.

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IJRCAIT) External link

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DOI

DOI Icon https://doi.org/10.34218/IJRCAIT_08_01_253

Publication Info

Volume: 8 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 3521-3534

Published On

January, 2025

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel implementation of Zero Trust principles in GitOps-managed Kubernetes clusters. Using IAM, OIDC, and ArgoCD access patterns, we present a fine-grained, identity-aware deployment pipeline that enforces policy-as-code and continuous security validation, validated in a production-scale AWS environment. Our approach demonstrates significant improvements in deployment security posture while maintaining operational efficiency, achieving 99.7% policy compliance and reducing unauthorized access attempts by 87%. The framework introduces identity-centric access controls that eliminate implicit trust assumptions in traditional GitOps workflows, establishing a new paradigm for secure cloud-native deployment architectures.

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