Container is running without root user control Affecting Deployment service in Kubernetes
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Description
Container could be running with full administrative privileges.
How to fix?
Set securityContext.runAsNonRoot to true.
Set the securityContext.runAsNonRoot attribute to true.
Example Configuration
resource "kubernetes_pod" "allow_container_non_root_user" {
metadata {
name = "allow"
}
spec {
container {
image = "nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged"
name = "example"
security_context {
run_as_non_root = true
}
}
}
}