Orchestration schedules containers across many hosts and gives them a shared identity, network, and secret store. That control plane is the attack surface: compromising it reaches every workload and node at once. Kubernetes is the overwhelming target, so this layer is organized around it, from first foothold in a pod through cluster takeover and persistence.
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- Kubernetes: the dominant orchestrator, attacked from a pod foothold up to full cluster control.