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Application Security & DevSecOps Agents

Problem Statement

Kubernetes clusters often contain overly permissive Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) bindings, such as service accounts with cluster-admin privileges or pods running in privileged mode (‘privileged: true’) with access to host namespaces.

Goal

Build an agentic K8s audit scanner that inspects YAML cluster manifests, identifies RBAC escalation risks, and auto-generates hardened manifest manifests.

Outcome Measurement

  1. Manifest Coverage: 100% of privileged containers and dangerous RBAC bindings detected.
  2. Remediation Speed: Generated secure deployment manifests automatically.

How the Code was Built

Parses Kubernetes YAML definitions into a Pydantic evaluation engine.

Executable Code

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
class K8sAuditResult(BaseModel):
is_secure: bool
detected_risks: list[str]
remediated_yaml: str
def audit_k8s_manifest(yaml_manifest: str) -> K8sAuditResult:
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", temperature=0)
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(K8sAuditResult)
prompt = f"Audit this Kubernetes manifest for security misconfigurations (e.g. privileged pods, hostPath mounts, cluster-admin bindings) and output corrected YAML:\n{yaml_manifest}"
return structured_llm.invoke(prompt)
if __name__ == "__main__":
bad_k8s = """
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: web-app
spec:
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: app
image: nginx:latest
securityContext:
privileged: true
runAsUser: 0
"""
res = audit_k8s_manifest(bad_k8s)
print(f"Is Secure: {res.is_secure}")
print(f"Risks Identified: {res.detected_risks}")
print("Remediated YAML:\n", res.remediated_yaml)

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