The banking sector has shown a strong interest in scaling out and utilizing the microservices architectural pattern within their payments domain, not only to manage increased transaction volumes, but also for compliance and risk-related control. Financial organizations are adopting containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker to align with the microservices paradigm. Containerization provides the foundation for automation and operational excellence of microservice-based applications by enabling continuous deployment and automated build-test-release cycles. However, deploying a Kubernetes cluster and the services it hosts in production is not sufficient to guarantee a secure and compliant operating environment. Kubernetes itself should be secured to protect workloads, and risks associated with the services being deployed must be managed continuously.