Discussion on: Run Kubernetes Pod with root privileges (not recommended)

[Paulo Renato]

However there can be a case when you need to run a container with root privilege because of permission issues of the volumes on the host.

Fix the permissions issues, not resort to run as root.

Sorry to tell you but youre article is really BAD ADVICE, specially when coming from a "senior" devops "engineer".

[TechWorld with Nana]

see above!