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by encryptluks2 1835 days ago
Almost all container breakout concerns rely on running containers as a privileged user:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53024790/kubernetes-supp...

There is an issue that I've been tracking, and there has been a new PR that will hopefully land soon to implement this in Kubernetes in a simplified manner:

https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/127

As for whether security policies prevent breakouts, it really depends on what the exploit is but they can significantly help. The idea of user namespace remapping solves a secondary issue though... if there is a breakout, what user privileges will they have.