Kube PodSecurityPolicy Advisor

kube-psp-advisor is a tool that makes it easier to create K8s Pod Security Policies (PSPs) from either a live K8s environment or from a single .yaml file containing a pod specification (Deployment, DaemonSet, Pod, etc).

It has 2 subcommands, kube-psp-advisor inspect and kube-psp-advisor convert. inspect connects to a K8s API server, scans the security context of workloads in a given namespace or the entire cluster, and generates a PSP based on the security context. convert works without connecting to an API Server, reading a single .yaml file containing a object with a pod spec and generating a PSP based on the file.

Installation as a Krew Plugin

Follow the instructions to install krew. Then run the following command:

kubectl krew install advise-psp

The plugin will be available as kubectl advise-psp.

Build and Run locally

1. make build
2. ./kube-psp-advisor inspect to generate Pod Security Policy based on running cluster configuration
   • 2.1 ./kube-psp-advisor inspect --report to print the details reports (why this PSP is recommended for the cluster)
   • 2.2 ./kube-psp-advisor inspect --grant to print PSPs, roles and rolebindings for service accounts (refer to psp-grant.yaml)
   • 2.3 ./kube-psp-advisor inspect --namespace=<ns> to print report or PSP(s) within a given namespace (default to all)
3. ./kube-psp-advisor convert --podFile <path> --pspFile <path> to generate a PSP from a single .yaml file.

Build and Run as Container

1. docker build -t <Image Name> -f container/Dockerfile .
2. docker run -v ~/.kube:/root/.kube -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws <Image Name> (the .aws folder mount is optional and totally depends on your clould provider)

Use Cases

1. Help verify the deployment, daemonset settings in cluster and plan to reduce unnecessary privileges/resources
2. Apply Pod Security Policy to the target cluster
3. flag --namespace=<namespace> is introduced to debug and narrow down the security context per namespace

Attributes Aggregated for Pod Security Policy

• allowPrivilegeEscalation
• allowedCapabilities
• allowedHostPaths
  • readOnly
• hostIPC
• hostNetwork
• hostPID
• privileged
• readOnlyRootFilesystem
• runAsUser
• runAsGroup
• Volume
• hostPorts
• allowedUnsafeSysctls

Limitations

Some attributes(e.g. capabilities) required gathering runtime information in order to provide the followings:

• Least privilege (capabilities captured from runtime)

High-level todo list

• [x] Basic functionalities;
• [ ] Create PSP's for common charts
• [x] Kubectl plugin

Sample Pod Security Policy

Command: ./kube-psp-advisor inspect --namespace=psp-test

apiVersion: policy/v1beta1
kind: PodSecurityPolicy
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: pod-security-policy-20181130114734
spec:
  allowedCapabilities:
  - SYS_ADMIN
  - NET_ADMIN
  allowedHostPaths:
  - pathPrefix: /bin
  - pathPrefix: /tmp
  - pathPrefix: /usr/sbin
  - pathPrefix: /usr/bin
  fsGroup:
    rule: RunAsAny
  hostIPC: false
  hostNetwork: false
  hostPID: false
  privileged: true
  runAsUser:
    rule: RunAsAny
  seLinux:
    rule: RunAsAny
  supplementalGroups:
    rule: RunAsAny
  volumes:
  - hostPath
  - configMap
  - secret

Sample Report

Command: ./kube-psp-advisor inspect --namespace=psp-test --report | jq .podSecuritySpecs

{
  "hostIPC": [
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-rs",
        "kind": "ReplicaSet"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostPID": true,
      "hostNetwork": true,
      "hostIPC": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "configMap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-job",
        "kind": "Job"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostIPC": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "hostPath"
      ],
      "mountedHostPath": [
        "/usr/bin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hostNetwork": [
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-rs",
        "kind": "ReplicaSet"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostPID": true,
      "hostNetwork": true,
      "hostIPC": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "configMap"
      ]
    },
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-pod",
        "kind": "Pod"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostNetwork": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "hostPath",
        "secret"
      ],
      "mountedHostPath": [
        "/usr/bin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hostPID": [
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-deploy",
        "kind": "Deployment"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostPID": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "hostPath"
      ],
      "mountedHostPath": [
        "/tmp"
      ]
    },
    {
      "metadata": {
        "name": "busy-rs",
        "kind": "ReplicaSet"
      },
      "namespace": "psp-test",
      "hostPID": true,
      "hostMetwork": true,
      "hostIPC": true,
      "volumeTypes": [
        "configMap"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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