CV0-004 Security Practice Question
A cloud engineer is deploying a containerized application on Kubernetes. The security team requires that containers run with reduced privileges and that certain capabilities are dropped. Which Kubernetes feature should be used to enforce these requirements?
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Pod Security Standards
Pod Security Standards (or Pod Security Policies) define security contexts and can restrict container capabilities.
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Pod Security Standards
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Pod Security Standards enforce security context constraints.
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Network policies
Why it's wrong here
Network policies control traffic flow, not container privileges.
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ConfigMap
Why it's wrong here
ConfigMaps store configuration data, not security policies.
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Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
Why it's wrong here
Autoscaler adjusts replica count, not security.
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