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Hardening Pods with securityContext

Baking least-privilege defaults into templates.

Why Harden by Default

A chart that ships least-privilege defaults protects every cluster that installs it. Security baked into templates beats hoping users remember to add it.

Two Levels of securityContext

You can set a securityContext at the pod level for all containers, and a narrower one per container. The container setting overrides the pod for that container.

All lessons in this course

  1. Standard Labels and Naming Conventions
  2. Sane, Documented Default Values
  3. Hardening Pods with securityContext
  4. Pinning Versions and Avoiding latest
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