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Dynamic Admission Control — Request

Webhooks are sent as POST requests, with Content-Type: application/json, with an AdmissionReview API object in the admission.k8s.io API group serialized to JSON as the body.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Webhooks are sent as POST requests, with Content-Type: application/json, with an AdmissionReview API object in the admission.k8s.io API group serialized to JSON as the body. Webhooks can specify what versions of AdmissionReview objects they accept with the admissionReviewVersions field in their configuration Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration webhooks: - name: my-webhook.example.com admissionReviewVersions: ["v1", "v1beta1"] ``` admissionReviewVersions is a required field when creating webhook configurations. Webhooks are required to support at least one AdmissionReview version understood by the current and previous API server. API servers send the first AdmissionReview version in the admissionReviewVersions list they support. If none of the versions in the list are supported by the API server, the configuration will not be allowed to be created. If an API server encounters a webhook configuration that was previously created and does not support any of the AdmissionReview versions the API server knows how to send, attempts to call to the webhook will fail and be subject to the failure policy. This example shows the data contained in an AdmissionReview object for a request to update the scale subresource of an apps/v1 Deployment Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml { "apiVersion": "admission.k8s.io/v1", "kind": "AdmissionReview", "request": { # Random uid uniquely identifying this admission call "uid": "705ab4f5-6393-11e8-b7cc-42010a800002", # Fully-qualified group/version/kind of the incoming object "kind": { "group": "autoscaling", "version": "v1", "kind": "Scale" }, # Fully-qualified group/version/kind of the resource being modified "resource": { "group": "apps", "version": "v1", "resource": "deployments" }, # Subresource, if the request is to a subresource "subResource": "scale", # Fully-qualified group/version/kind of the incoming object in the original request to the API server # This only differs from `kind` if the webhook specified `matchPolicy: Equivalent` and the original # request to the API server was converted to a version the webhook regi ``` Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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