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Security context

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- [Teacher] Correctly implemented access control strategy can issue you that only the desired subjects will be able to perform the permitted actions. But your applications and pods work in conjunction with the OS and kernel, and you still need another layer of controls to ensure that these pods don't do anything dumb. If you recall, from the earlier chapters about securing standalone containers, we emphasized a few best practices such as not to run a container as root, securing network access, and so on. The fact that you now have Kubernetes orchestrating these pods, you still need a mechanism to implement the very same security controls. Kubernetes offers these mechanisms via security context and security policies. Think of security context as the mechanism provided to developers. Developers when writing pod specifications can attach the security context for a pod in the spec itself. On the other hand, think…

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