Merge pull request #20793 from JayBeale/patch-3

Documenting read-only rootfs for issue 17927
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2020-05-09 15:19:51 -07:00
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A security context defines privilege and access control settings for
a Pod or Container. Security context settings include:
a Pod or Container. Security context settings include, but are not limited to:
* Discretionary Access Control: Permission to access an object, like a file, is based on
[user ID (UID) and group ID (GID)](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups).
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ a Pod or Container. Security context settings include:
* AllowPrivilegeEscalation: Controls whether a process can gain more privileges than its parent process. This bool directly controls whether the [`no_new_privs`](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt) flag gets set on the container process. AllowPrivilegeEscalation is true always when the container is: 1) run as Privileged OR 2) has `CAP_SYS_ADMIN`.
* readOnlyRootFilesystem: Mounts the container's root filesystem as read-only.
The above bullets are not a complete set of security context settings -- please see
[SecurityContext](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/{{< param "version" >}}/#securitycontext-v1-core)
for a comprehensive list.
For more information about security mechanisms in Linux, see
[Overview of Linux Kernel Security Features](https://www.linux.com/learn/overview-linux-kernel-security-features)