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Container Security Best Practices

Review one container note. Do not run privileged, and do not disable pod security.

Updated 25 October 2026 · Checklist

This is an original planning guide. It is not a vendor manual, an official standard, or legal advice. Example addresses use documentation ranges. Review every command before you paste it.

What this hour is for

Container Security Best Practices checks an image note and a pod-security line. Privileged is a finding. Do not disable a policy to make the check pass. Do not deploy during the reading.

Write the system you administer, the name of this change, and the time. A second change waits until this line has been read back.

The browser tool drafts text or reads a paste you already hold. It does not log in, it does not scan a network you do not administer, and it does not apply.

192.0.2.10/24, gateway 192.0.2.1, 198.51.100.0/24, 203.0.113.0/24, and 2001:db8::/32 are documentation. example.com is a documentation name. A sample password is replaced.

The change you can finish

Apply nothing while you are writing the note. When the lab window opens, it is one change on the system named in the ticket. Read the draft, then the system, then decide.

Rollback is the file, the record, or the snapshot you saved first. You do not invent a rollback after the only copy is gone.

  1. Write the image or the namespace you administer.
  2. Read the check.
  3. Leave privileged off.
  4. Do not deploy.
  5. Stop.

Mistakes that outlive the statement

Container Security Best Practices goes wrong in a small set of ways. The list is here so the ticket can forbid them before the window.

Decisions to write down

One decision for Container Security Best Practices: The namespace is yours. Privileged stays off. Pod security stays on. Nothing is deployed. And no secret is in the note.

Checks before you call it done

Confirm this before you call the change done: The name is written. Nothing was deployed. Privileged is absent. Pod security is still on. And no secret is in the note. If one of those fails, stop.

# Container note. Do not run privileged. Do not disable pod security.

Before you leave the system

Container Security Best Practices ends when the system in the note is the system in the ticket. If it is not, stop.

The draft stays a draft until a person has read the names in it. A generator does not log in, does not scan, and does not send mail.

192.0.2.10/24, gateway 192.0.2.1, 198.51.100.0/24, 203.0.113.0/24, and 2001:db8::/32 are documentation. example.com is a documentation name. They belong in the note. They are not values you publish because a draft included them.

prompt-for-this is a reminder that a secret is missing. It is not a password, a key, or a token you save. A sample password is replaced. It is not a password you keep.

One change is the window. If two things move and the result is wrong, you will not know which one did it.

If the same step fails twice, stop for the day. Restore the copy you took first.

A second person reads the scope aloud. If they cannot find it in the ticket, the note is not done.

This page is a planning guide. It is not legal advice, not an audit opinion, not a vendor manual, and not the text of a standard. You do not disable a security control to make a check pass. You do not use the page against a system you do not administer.

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