feat: add VAP alternatives

content/en/docs/operating/best-practices/_index.md

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 description: Best Practices when running Capsule in production 
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+This is general advice you should consider before making Kubernetes Distribution consideration. They are partly relevant for Multi-Tenancy with Capsule.
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+### Authentication
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+User authentication for the platform should be handled via a central OIDC-compatible identity provider system (e.g., Keycloak, Azure AD, Okta, or any other OIDC-compliant provider).
+The rationale is that other central platform components — such as ArgoCD, Grafana, Headlamp, or Harbor — should also integrate with the same authentication mechanism. This enables a unified login experience and reduces administrative complexity in managing users and permissions.
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+[Capsule relies on native Kubernetes RBAC](/docs/operating/authentication/), so it's important to consider how the Kubernetes API handles user authentication.
+
+### OCI Pull-Cache
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+By default, Kubernetes clusters pull images directly from upstream registries like `docker.io`, `quay.io`, `ghcr.io`, or `gcr.io`. In production environments, this can lead to issues — especially because Docker Hub enforces rate limits that may cause image pull failures with just a few nodes or frequent deployments (e.g., when pods are rescheduled).
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+To ensure availability, performance, and control over container images, it's essential to provide an on-premise OCI mirror.
+This mirror should be configured via the CRI (Container Runtime Interface) by defining it as a mirror endpoint in registries.conf for default registries (e.g., `docker.io`).
+This way, all nodes automatically benefit from caching without requiring developers to change image URLs.
+
+### Secrets Management
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+In more complex environments with multiple clusters and applications, managing secrets manually via YAML or Helm is no longer practical.
+Instead, a centralized secrets management system should be established — such as Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or the CNCF project [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/) (formerly the Vault community fork).
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+To integrate these external secret stores with Kubernetes, the [External Secrets Operator (ESO)](https://external-secrets.io/latest/) is a recommended solution. It automatically syncs defined secrets from external sources as Kubernetes secrets, and supports dynamic rotation, access control, and auditing.
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+If no external secret store is available, there should at least be a secure way to store sensitive data in Git.
+In our ecosystem, we provide a solution based on SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) for this use case.
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+[👉 Demonstration](https://killercoda.com/peakscale/course/playgrounds/sops-secrets)
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