Non Root

✓ Guardrail Kubernetes Guardrails Stable Deployment And Infrastructure

k8s.non-root

Requires containers to run as non-root users via securityContext. Running as root inside containers violates least privilege principles.

security context non-root runAsNonRoot least privilege

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Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Non Root with each collector.

Non Root + Kubernetes Collector Provides parsed K8s manifest data that these policies evaluate

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Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml

policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/k8s@v1.0.0
    include: [non-root]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the Kubernetes Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

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↓ Integrations Gather Data

Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans

{ } Centralized as JSON

All data merged into each component's unified metadata document

✓ This Guardrail Checks Current

Non Root runs and provides pass/fail feedback

Configuration Options

These inputs can be configured in your lunar-config.yml to customize how the parent policy (and this guardrail) behaves.

Input	Required	Default	Description
`min_replicas`	Optional	`3`	Minimum replicas required for HPAs (default 3)
`max_limit_to_request_ratio`	Optional	`4`	Maximum ratio of limits to requests for CPU/memory (default 4)

Kubernetes Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the Kubernetes Guardrails policy, which includes 6 guardrails for deployment and infrastructure.

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