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Pod and Workload Management Mastery Hub: The Industry Founda

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Q1Domain Verified
Within the context of Kubernetes Pod Security, what is the primary distinction between a Pod Security Admission (PS
PSA is designed for enforcing granular, per-namespace security policies, whereas PSP was a cluster-wide enforcement mechanism.
controller and a Pod Security Policy (PSP) object? A) PSA is a built-in Kubernetes API that enforces security standards at the cluster level, while PSP was an optional, deprecated admission controller that required explicit installation.
PSA utilizes a declarative YAML configuration to define security contexts, similar to PSP, but offers more fine-grained control over specific security features like SELinux.
PSA is a newer, more flexible approach that relies on predefined security profiles (Privileged, Baseline, Restricted), while PSP involved writing custom, complex policy rules.
Q2Domain Verified
A Kubernetes administrator is implementing a "Restricted" Pod Security Admission profile for a sensitive namespace. Which of the following configurations would most likely be *denied* by this policy?
A pod mounting a ConfigMap as a volume.
A pod attempting to use the host IPC namespace.
A pod with a defined `seccompProfile` set to `RuntimeDefault`.
A pod running as a non-root user with read-only root filesystem.
Q3Domain Verified
Consider a scenario where a Kubernetes cluster has a Pod Security Admission controller configured with the `restricted` profile for a specific namespace. A user attempts to deploy a pod manifest that includes `hostNetwork: true`. What will be the outcome, and why?
The pod will be successfully deployed, as `hostNetwork: true` is a common and often necessary configuration for certain types of applications.
The pod deployment will be allowed, but a warning will be logged indicating that this configuration deviates from the recommended security posture.
The pod deployment will be rejected by the kube-apiserver before reaching the Pod Security Admission controller due to a fundamental security violation.
The pod deployment will be rejected by the Pod Security Admission controller because the `restricted` profile explicitly disallows the use of host networking.

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