This talk will explain how SELinux works with containers. We will show how to enable/disable SElinux using multiple different container runtimes and define the default types. One issue with these types is that they are tough to customize. The two default types for running containers are containert which is a fully confined domain, which eliminates any use of the host files unless they are relabeled. Or spct, which is the type containers run with when SELinux is disabled for container separation, --privileged mode. As an example, If you had a container that you wanted to be able to gather the logs from /var/log on the host and send them to a centralized server, you have to disable SELinux separation.

Writing custom policy for each container that needed additional access would be very difficult and require a container policy writer.