docs(pyroscope/ebpf): Document required Linux capabilities for least-privilege Kubernetes deployments#6002
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…privilege Kubernetes deployments Add a "Required privileges" section listing the specific Linux capabilities and host volume mounts needed to run pyroscope.ebpf without privileged: true.
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privileged: trueis the simplest Kubernetes option, with least-privilege capabilities as an alternativeBPF,PERFMON,SYS_PTRACE,CHECKPOINT_RESTORE,SYS_RESOURCE,DAC_READ_SEARCH,SYSLOG) with brief descriptions/sys/kernel/debugfor debugfs and/sys/kernel/tracingfor tracefs on kernel 5.6+)Based on simonswine/pyroscope@c3f5a82
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