Kubernetes Security & Config Drift – Observed via KubeHA

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A recent KubeHA security posture scan surfaced the following runtime and configuration risks:
- Privileged Pods: 7
- Pods running as root: 3
- Secrets exposure: 1
- RBAC misconfigurations: None detected ✅

📌 Why SREs should care

Privileged pods bypass key kernel isolation boundaries and significantly expand the failure and attack surface
Containers running as UID 0 remain one of the most common causes of escalation paths in Kubernetes breaches
Even a single exposed secret can compromise workloads, CI/CD pipelines, or control-plane access
Clean RBAC indicates strong identity scoping – but needs continuous verification as clusters evolve

⚙️ What KubeHA does differently
KubeHA continuously correlates:

Security context & pod spec configs
Runtime behavior and cluster events
RBAC state, secrets usage, and config drift …to highlight real risk, not just noisy violations.

This enables SRE teams to:
✔ catch risky workloads early
✔ prevent drift from baseline security standards
✔ prioritize fixes based on blast radius and impact

Kubernetes security is not a point-in-time scan.
It’s a continuous reliability problem.

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