# Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container — Assign SELinux labels to a Container

> To assign SELinux labels to a Container, include the seLinuxOptions field in the securityContext section of your Pod or Container manifest.

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To assign SELinux labels to a Container, include the seLinuxOptions field in the securityContext section of your Pod or Container manifest. The seLinuxOptions field is an SELinuxOptions object. Here's an example that applies an SELinux level

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
...
securityContext:
  seLinuxOptions:
    level: "s0:c123,c456"
```

To assign SELinux labels, the SELinux security module must be loaded on the host operating system. On Windows and Linux worker nodes without SELinux support, this field and any SELinux feature gates described below have no effect.

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