Unable to use Systemd on GKE container without making the container Privileged

[demishra]

The application container i am using to deploy on GKE pod, uses Systemctl for starting/stopping the services. But don't want to make the container privileged. In AWS EKS i am able to do this without privileged mode. Is there any way to use systemclt without privileged mode.

[garisingh]

So you are running systemd in your actual pod?

[demishra]

Yes we are using systemd on the actual pod

[MaxImbrox]

Hi demishra,

following kubernetes.io official documentation, you can try to use Security Context and avoid using Privilege Escalation --> https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/security-context/ 

If you need some help, we can keep in touch 🙂