# Dynamic Admission Control — Matching requests: matchConditions

> You can define _match conditions_ for webhooks if you need fine-grained request filtering.

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You can define _match conditions_ for webhooks if you need fine-grained request filtering. These conditions are useful if you find that match rules, objectSelectors and namespaceSelectors still doesn't provide the filtering you want over when to call out over HTTP. Match conditions are CEL expressions. All match conditions must evaluate to true for the webhook to be called.

Here is an example illustrating a few different uses for match conditions

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
webhooks:
  - name: my-webhook.example.com
    matchPolicy: Equivalent
    rules:
      - operations: ['CREATE','UPDATE']
        apiGroups: ['*']
        apiVersions: ['*']
        resources: ['*']
    failurePolicy: 'Ignore' # Fail-open (optional)
    sideEffects: None
    clientConfig:
      service:
        namespace: my-namespace
        name: my-webhook
      caBundle: '&lt;omitted&gt;'
    # You can have up to 64 matchConditions per webhook
    matchConditions:
      - name: 'exclude-leases' # Each match condition must have a unique name
        expression: '!(request.resource.group == "coordination.k8s.io" &amp;&amp; request.resource.resource == "leases")' # Match non-lease resources.
      - name: 'exclude-kubelet-requests'
        expression: '!("system:nodes" in request.userInfo.groups)' # Match requests made b
```

You can define up to 64 elements in the matchConditions field per webhook.

Match conditions have access to the following CEL variables

object - The object from the incoming request. The value is null for DELETE requests. The object version may be converted based on the matchPolicy. oldObject - The existing object. The value is null for CREATE requests. request - The request portion of the AdmissionReview, excluding object and oldObject. authorizer - A CEL Authorizer. May be used to perform authorization checks for the principal (authenticated user) of the request. See Authz in the Kubernetes CEL library documentation for more details. authorizer.requestResource - A shortcut for an authorization check configured with the request resource (group, resource, (subresource), namespace, name).

For more information on CEL expressions, refer to the Common Expression Language in Kubernetes reference. …

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