Container is running with SYS_ADMIN capability Affecting Deployment service in Kubernetes
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Description
SYS_ADMIN capability grants the container almost full administrative privileges.
How to fix?
Remove SYS_ADMIN from securityContext.capabilities.add list.
Remove SYS_ADMIN from security_context.capabilities.add list.
Example Configuration
resource "kubernetes_pod" "allowed" {
metadata {
name = "terraform-example611a"
}
spec {
container {
security_context {
capabilities {
drop = ["ALL"]
add = ["NET_ADMIN", "test"]
}
}
image = "nginx:1.7.9"
name = "example"
port {
container_port = 8080
}
}
}
}