Kubernetes Pod and Container Security

Internal

• Kubernetes Security Concepts

Overview

Containers instantiated from container images and running in pods in a Kubernetes cluster are executing by default with container image configuration, (for example, the user and the group various container processes run under are by default specified with the USER directive in the container image), in non-privileged mode and using a pre-defined set of kernel capabilities. The pod and container security contexts, described below, are a declarative method to modify all these run-time settings and get the containers to run with a different configuration.

Relationship with Pod Security Policy

For more details see:

Pod Security Policy Concepts