Removed feature PodSecurityPolicy was deprecated in Kubernetes v1.21, and removed from Kubernetes in v1.25. Instead of using PodSecurityPolicy, you can enforce similar restrictions on Pods using either or both: Pod Security Admission a 3rd party admission plugin, that you deploy and configure yourself For a migration guide, see Migrate from PodSecurityPolicy to the Built-In PodSecurity Admission Controller. For more information on the removal of this API, see PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future.

Define a range of valid memory resource limits for a namespace, so that every new Pod in that namespace falls within the range you configure.

This page explains how to configure the kubelet's cgroup driver to match the container runtime cgroup driver for kubeadm clusters. Before you begin You should be familiar with the Kubernetes container runtime requirements. Configuring the container runtime cgroup driver The Container runtimes page explains that the systemd driver is recommended for kubeadm based setups instead of the kubelet's default cgroupfs driver, because kubeadm manages the kubelet as a systemd service.

When several users or teams share a cluster with a fixed number of nodes, there is a concern that one team could use more than its fair share of resources. Resource quotas are a tool for administrators to address this concern. A resource quota, defined by a ResourceQuota object, provides constraints that limit aggregate resource consumption per namespace. A ResourceQuota can also limit the quantity of objects that can be created in a namespace by API kind, as well as the total amount of infrastructure resources that may be consumed by API objects found in that namespace.

A Secret is an object that contains a small amount of sensitive data such as a password, a token, or a key. Such information might otherwise be put in a Pod specification or in a container image. Using a Secret means that you don't need to include confidential data in your application code. Because Secrets can be created independently of the Pods that use them, there is less risk of the Secret (and its data) being exposed during the workflow of creating, viewing, and editing Pods.

Use kubeconfig files to organize information about clusters, users, namespaces, and authentication mechanisms. The kubectl command-line tool uses kubeconfig files to find the information it needs to choose a cluster and communicate with the API server of a cluster. Note:A file that is used to configure access to clusters is called a kubeconfig file. This is a generic way of referring to configuration files. It does not mean that there is a file named kubeconfig.

Baseline checklist for ensuring security in Kubernetes clusters.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Manage security and best-practices with policies.