K8s Preventing Privileged Pods using Pod Security Admission / Standards

Prevent privileged pods from being created to improve security of your K8s cluster. This video shows how to do this using Pod Security Admission/Standards through a fun hands-on screenshare with explanations. Blog post: https://samos-it.com/posts/Preventing-Privileged-pods-using-Pod-Security-Admission-Standards.html Content 0:00 Introduction 1:42 Background on Pod Security Standards and Admission 2:43 Enforcing Baseline Pod Security Standard on default namespace 4:28 Verify privileged pods are being blocked In a Kubernetes cluster, a privileged pod is a pod that has been given extended per…