# Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container — Set the Seccomp Profile for a Container

> To set the Seccomp profile for a Container, include the seccompProfile field in the securityContext section of your Pod or Container manifest.

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To set the Seccomp profile for a Container, include the seccompProfile field in the securityContext section of your Pod or Container manifest. The seccompProfile field is a SeccompProfile object consisting of type and localhostProfile. Valid options for type include RuntimeDefault, Unconfined, and Localhost. localhostProfile must only be set if type: Localhost. It indicates the path of the pre-configured profile on the node, relative to the kubelet's configured Seccomp profile location (configured with the --root-dir flag).

Here is an example that sets the Seccomp profile to the node's container runtime default profile

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
...
securityContext:
  seccompProfile:
    type: RuntimeDefault
```

Here is an example that sets the Seccomp profile to a pre-configured file at /seccomp/my-profiles/profile-allow.json

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
...
securityContext:
  seccompProfile:
    type: Localhost
    localhostProfile: my-profiles/profile-allow.json
```

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