Xide / kube2allow

helper to guess required linux capabilities for pods in your Kubernetes cluster

Kube2Allow

Little helper to guess required linux capabilities for pods in your Kubernetes cluster.

Install

kubectl apply -f ds.yaml

Usage

Once installed, the application will create configmaps for each containers in the cluster, named k2a-${POD_NAME}-${CONTAINER_NAME} in the pod namespace.

# Get all configmaps
kubectl get cm --all-namespaces -l 'k8s-app=kube2allow'

# Delete generated configmaps
kubectl delete cm --all-namespaces -l 'k8s-app=kube2allow'

# Uninstall kube2allow
kubectl delete -f ds.yaml

Generate syscall <-> capabilities mapping

The mapping is extracted from referenced capabilities in the man 2 page. You can generate app/caps_mapping.json with this command:

make app/caps_mapping.json

You can either rebuild the image to embed this file, or mount it as a volume on /caps_mapping.json in the container.

Caveats

• This application guesses the capabilities by trapping system calls, but there is no direct mapping between syscall and required caps. Thus, it is done by parsing the man page, but this can lead to a broader set of capabilities than the process really requires.

• syscalls are detected at runtime, but it can happen that a container only requires capabilities during initialization. In order to ensure all capabilities have been scraped, you can restart the pods once kube2allow is installed.