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Security

Polaris supports a number of checks related to security.

key default description
security.hostIPCSet danger Fails when hostIPC attribute is configured.
security.hostPIDSet danger Fails when hostPID attribute is configured.
security.notReadOnlyRootFilesystem warning Fails when securityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem is not true.
security.privilegeEscalationAllowed danger Fails when securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation is true.
security.runAsRootAllowed danger Fails when securityContext.runAsNonRoot is not true.
security.runAsPrivileged danger Fails when securityContext.privileged is true.
security.insecureCapabilities warning Fails when securityContext.capabilities includes one of the capabilities listed here
security.dangerousCapabilities danger Fails when securityContext.capabilities includes one of the capabilities listed here

Background

Securing workloads in Kubernetes is an important part of overall cluster security. The overall goal should be to ensure that containers are running with as minimal privileges as possible. This includes avoiding privilege escalation, not running containers with a root user, and using read only file systems wherever possible.

Much of this configuration can be found in the securityContext attribute for both Kubernetes pods and containers. Where configuration is available at both a pod and container level, Polaris validates both.

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