Creating Least Privilege Policies in Kubernetes

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Creating Least Privilege Policies in Kubernetes

You are a container engineer at Cube4Lyf, an e-gaming platform geared towards puzzle and logic games. As their Kubernetes implementation matures, their security team is calling for more granular user access policies that adhere to the Principle of Least Privilege. The team has created a role to restrict the Dev user to read/write permissions in the development namespace, read-only rights in the productions namespace, and no access to the monitoring namespace in the cluster. However, users are reporting more access than intended. You will need to troubleshoot the policy and role bindings to ensure this granular access is enforced in the cluster.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 25, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Objective 1

Correct the configuration of the deployment-user role and role binding so that it only allows those actions in the development namespace.

Challenge

Objective 2

Restore read-only permissions for the production namespace to the dev user.

Notes Read-only role:

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  namespace: production
  name: prod-read
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
  resources: ["pods", "deployments"]
  verbs: ["get", "watch", "list"]

Read-only role binding:

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
    name: prod-read
    namespace: production
subjects:
- kind: User
  name: dev
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
roleRef:
    kind: Role
    name: prod-read
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

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