OpenShift Security Context Constraints

External

• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/architecture/additional_concepts/authorization.html#security-context-constraints
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/admin_guide/manage_scc.html
• https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/install_config/persistent_storage/pod_security_context.html

Internal

• OpenShift Security Concepts
• Docker Concepts - Privileged Container
• Security Context Constrains Operations

Overview

OpenShift uses Security Context Constraints (SCCs) to control the actions that a pod, and ultimately, a container, can perform and what resources it has the ability to access, security features, access to host features, etc.

A Security Context Constraint (SCC) is an OpenShift primitive that defines capability declarations used by the admission controller to validate pod-related requests. The capabilities are expressed as booleans, lists and strategies. The boolean fields default to the most restrictive values. Values of a list field are checked agains the set to ensure the value is allowed.

Strategy

A strategy implies a mechanism to generate the value and a mechanism to insure that a specified value falls into a set of allowable values.

Admission Controller

Each field of the security context must be validated against SCCs in order for a request to be successful.