Minimize the admission of containers wishing to share the host IPC namespace

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

out=$(kubectl get pods -A -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{.metadata.namespace}} {{.metadata.name}} {{.spec.hostIPC}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}') || exit 1
bad=$(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

onfigure Pod Security Admission on workload namespaces so pods that request spec.hostIPC: true are denied at admission time. For this control, the baseline and restricted Pod Security Standards disallow hostIPC, while restricted is typically the stronger choice for user workloads. For remediation, use enforce because only enforce rejects violating pods. warn and audit can help during rollout, but they do not block admission. Label each workload namespace to enforce restricted. kubectl label ns NAMESPACE pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=restricted --overwrite Add warn and audit during transition if you want visibility into violations before or alongside enforcement.

Check this host

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

tmaegis scan --target oke