Chapter 9. Pod security authentication and authorization

MicroShift includes Kubernetes pod security admission.

In addition to the global pod security admission control configuration, a controller exists that applies pod security admission control warn and audit labels to namespaces according to the security context constraint (SCC) permissions of the service accounts that are in a given namespace.

The controller examines ServiceAccount object permissions to use security context constraints in each namespace. Security context constraints (SCCs) are mapped to pod security profiles based on their field values; the controller uses these translated profiles. Pod security admission warn and audit labels are set to the most privileged pod security profile found in the namespace to prevent warnings and audit logging as pods are created.

Namespace labeling is based on consideration of namespace-local service account privileges.

Applying pods directly might use the SCC privileges of the user who runs the pod. However, user privileges are not considered during automatic labeling.

You can enable automatic pod security admission synchronization for most namespaces.

System defaults are not enforced when the security.openshift.io/scc.podSecurityLabelSync field is empty or set to false. You must set the label to true for synchronization to occur.