| CPC G06F 21/53 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A system comprising:
at least one hardware processor; and
a computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the at least one hardware processor to perform operations comprising:
monitoring, by a privileged execution operator in a container orchestration system cloud environment, a privileged execution custom resource created in the container orchestration system cloud environment by an application programming interface (API) server upon receipt of a trigger for privileged execution of one or more commands;
identifying one or more target nodes of the container orchestration system cloud environment based on the privileged execution custom resource;
spawning a custom privileged execution runtime environment on each of the one or more target nodes, the custom privileged execution runtime environment designed to automatically execute the one or more commands and report results of the execution;
receiving results of the execution from the custom privileged execution runtime environment on each of the one or more target nodes; and
writing the execution results to the privileged execution custom resource.
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