Prevent pods from sharing the host process ID namespace

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

out=$(kubectl get pods -A -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{.metadata.namespace}} {{.metadata.name}} {{.spec.hostPID}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}') || exit 1
bad=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | awk -v ex='^(kube-system|kube-public|kube-node-lease)$' 'NF && $1 !~ ex && ($3=="true")')
if [ -z "$bad" ]; then echo compliant; else printf '%s\n' "$bad" | head -n 25; fi

Expected output

compliant

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

Configure Pod Security Admission on workload namespaces so pods that request spec.hostPID: true are denied at admission time. Use enforce for remediation because it rejects violating pods. Use warn and audit as rollout and visibility controls, but do not treat them as enforcement. For this control, baseline is sufficient because it prohibits hostPID, while restricted provides stronger hardening for workload namespaces that can meet the additional requirements. Update each workload namespace with the restricted enforcement label. kubectl label ns $NAMESPACE pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=restricted --overwrite If restricted is too disruptive for a valid workload namespace, enforce baseline as the minimum profile for this specific control.

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

tmaegis scan --target eks-auto