SecurityContext - Amazon GuardDuty
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SecurityContext

Container security context.

Contents

allowPrivilegeEscalation

Whether or not a container or a Kubernetes pod is allowed to gain more privileges than its parent process.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

privileged

Whether the container is privileged.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: