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Best practices for securing VSatellite

Regularly updating your VSatellites ensures that it remains secure, stable, and compliant with the latest security standards. As part of routine maintenance, you should apply the following updates:

  • Update vsatctl – Apply vsatctl updates to ensure you have the latest security updates.
  • Upgrade K3s – Keeps the embedded Kubernetes (K3s) version up to date for optimal performance and security.

Prerequisites

  • You must have root privileges to run the vsatctl commands in this topic.

  • Ensure you have the latest version of vsatctl installed.

    curl -O https://dl.venafi.cloud/vsatctl
chmod +x ./vsatctl

Keeping VSatellite secure

Carefully review the following security maintenance tasks to ensure your VSatellites remain up to date.

To apply the latest vsatctl updates

Apply vsatctl updates to ensure you have the latest security updates by running the following:

sudo vsatctl update security

For additional details, including configuration considerations, see Update vsatctl to upgrade security of existing connections.

To upgrade K3s for stability and security

Run the following command to upgrade K3s to the latest supported version for {vsat}:

sudo vsatctl upgrade k3s

See vsatctl upgrade k3s.