Interview Questions/Technical Deep Dive/Securing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespaces
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Securing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespaces

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Interview Question

Design a secure multi-tenant Kubernetes setup. How do you isolate workloads and enforce policy across namespaces?

Key Points to Cover
  • Use network policies, resource quotas, and limit ranges per namespace
  • Apply Pod Security Standards and admission controls
  • Separate service accounts and least-privilege RBAC per tenant
  • Restrict egress with egress gateways or eBPF-based policy
  • Audit policies via OPA/Gatekeeper and CI checks
Evaluation Rubric
Implements strong tenant isolation35% weight
Applies least-privilege access control25% weight
Enforces ingress/egress/networking policy20% weight
Enables policy governance and audit20% weight
Hints
  • 💡Consider separate clusters for hard isolation.
Potential Follow-up Questions
  • How to shard tenants across clusters?
  • How do you handle noisy neighbors?
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