Pods with Generic Ephemeral Volumes fail with SCC errors

Environment

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11

Issue

• When trying to deploy a pod with Generic Ephemeral Volumes the pod fails with the following error:

Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating "pod.yaml": pods "my-app" is forbidden: unable to validate against any security context constraint

Resolution

This is a known issue tracked by This content is not included.Bug 2100429, that Red Hat plans to fix in a future release.

Please refer to KCS 6967808, which offers a workaround to the denoted issue.

Root Cause

The default restricted SCC lacks sufficient permissions to allow use of ephemeral volume type.

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