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Start Minimize Microservice Vulnerabilities PracticeWhich TWO of the following are effective measures to minimize the impact of a compromised microservice container in a Kubernetes cluster? (Choose two.)
Explanation: Setting resource limits (CPU/memory) on a container is correct because it prevents a compromised microservice from consuming excessive cluster resources, which could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against other workloads. By enforcing limits via the container's cgroup constraints, the kernel throttles or OOM-kills the container if it exceeds its allocated resources, containing the blast radius of the compromise.
You are a platform engineer at a financial services company. The production cluster runs a set of microservices that handle sensitive customer data. The cluster has been configured with Pod Security Standards (PSS) enforced via OPA/Gatekeeper. Recently, the security team identified that a new deployment of the `payment-processing` microservice is running with the `seccomp` profile set to `Unconfined`. This violates the company policy that requires all containers to use a runtime default seccomp profile. The deployment YAML does not explicitly set any security context for seccomp. The cluster's nodes are running containerd 1.6 with default seccomp profile enabled. The OPA constraint template checks that `securityContext.seccompProfile.type` is set to `RuntimeDefault` or `Localhost`. However, the deployment passes the OPA validation. What is the most likely reason the deployment is not being rejected by OPA, and how should you fix it?
Explanation: The OPA constraint template checks `securityContext.seccompProfile.type` at the pod level, but the deployment does not set any security context at the pod level. The seccomp profile is only set at the container level (or defaults to `Unconfined` by the runtime), and the OPA constraint does not inspect container-level `securityContext`. This mismatch allows the deployment to pass validation even though the container is running with an unconfined seccomp profile.
Arrange the steps to configure and use Trivy to scan container images for vulnerabilities in a CI/CD pipeline.
Explanation: Trivy is installed in the CI environment. The container image is built and pushed to a registry. Trivy then scans the pushed image for known vulnerabilities. The scan results (e.g., JSON output) are parsed by the CI pipeline, and policies such as failing the build on critical vulnerabilities are enforced based on those results.
Which of the following OPA Gatekeeper Rego policies would deny a pod that sets `securityContext.runAsUser: 0`?
Explanation: It uses the correct Rego path to match the `runAsUser` field inside each container's `securityContext`. The `containers[_]` iterator ensures the policy checks every container in the pod spec, and `runAsUser == 0` correctly identifies containers running as root. This is the standard way to enforce a 'no root' policy at the container level in OPA Gatekeeper.
Which Kubernetes admission controller is responsible for mutating and validating pod requests based on policies defined by OPA Gatekeeper?
Explanation: OPA Gatekeeper uses the ValidatingAdmissionWebhook admission controller to intercept pod creation requests and enforce policies defined as ConstraintTemplates and Constraints. This webhook validates requests against Rego policies before they are persisted, rejecting non-compliant pods. The ValidatingAdmissionWebhook is the correct mechanism because Gatekeeper does not mutate requests—it only validates them.
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