Welcome to the 11th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API10:2023 Unsafe Consumption of APIs. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.
Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool that helps with the deployment and management of containers. Within Kubernetes, a container runs logically in a pod, which can be represented as one instance of a running service. Pods are ephemeral and not self-healing, which makes them fragile. They can go down when an interruption occurs on the server, during a brief network problem, or due to a minimal memory issue—and it can bring down your entire application with it.