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Building a Kubernetes Mutating Admission Webhook

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Christopher Adamson
Aug 09, 2025
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Kubernetes admission webhooks extend the API server by allowing custom logic to intercept requests that create, update, or delete objects. There are two types of admission webhooks: validating webhooks, which assess and either approve or reject requests without changing them, and mutating webhooks, which can modify objects in-flight before they are persisted in the cluster.

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