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| <h2>PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree</h2> | ||
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| If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should | ||
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| ## Abstract | ||
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| A proposal for adding **alpha** support for | ||
| [seccomp](https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp) to Kubernetes. Seccomp is a | ||
| system call filtering facility in the Linux kernel which lets applications | ||
| define limits on system calls they may make, and what should happen when | ||
| system calls are made. Seccomp is used to reduce the attack surface available | ||
| to applications. | ||
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| ## Motivation | ||
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| Applications use seccomp to restrict the set of system calls they can make. | ||
| Recently, container runtimes have begun adding features to allow the runtime | ||
| to interact with seccomp on behalf of the application, which eliminates the | ||
| need for applications to link against libseccomp directly. Adding support in | ||
| the Kubernetes API for describing seccomp profiles will allow administrators | ||
| greater control over the security of workloads running in Kubernetes. | ||
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| Goals of this design: | ||
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| 1. Describe how to reference seccomp profiles in containers that use them | ||
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| ## Constraints and Assumptions | ||
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| This design should: | ||
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| * build upon previous security context work | ||
| * be container-runtime agnostic | ||
| * allow use of custom profiles | ||
| * facilitate containerized applications that link directly to libseccomp | ||
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| ## Use Cases | ||
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| 1. As an administrator, I want to be able to grant access to a seccomp profile | ||
| to a class of users | ||
| 2. As a user, I want to run an application with a seccomp profile similar to | ||
| the default one provided by my container runtime | ||
| 3. As a user, I want to run an application which is already libseccomp-aware | ||
| in a container, and for my application to manage interacting with seccomp | ||
| unmediated by Kubernetes | ||
| 4. As a user, I want to be able to use a custom seccomp profile and use | ||
| it with my containers | ||
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| ### Use Case: Administrator access control | ||
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| Controlling access to seccomp profiles is a cluster administrator | ||
| concern. It should be possible for an administrator to control which users | ||
| have access to which profiles. | ||
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| The [pod security policy](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/7893) | ||
| API extension governs the ability of users to make requests that affect pod | ||
| and container security contexts. The proposed design should deal with | ||
| required changes to control access to new functionality. | ||
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| ### Use Case: Seccomp profiles similar to container runtime defaults | ||
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| Many users will want to use images that make assumptions about running in the | ||
| context of their chosen container runtime. Such images are likely to | ||
| frequently assume that they are running in the context of the container | ||
| runtime's default seccomp settings. Therefore, it should be possible to | ||
| express a seccomp profile similar to a container runtime's defaults. | ||
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| As an example, all dockerhub 'official' images are compatible with the Docker | ||
| default seccomp profile. So, any user who wanted to run one of these images | ||
| with seccomp would want the default profile to be accessible. | ||
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| ### Use Case: Applications that link to libseccomp | ||
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| Some applications already link to libseccomp and control seccomp directly. It | ||
| should be possible to run these applications unmodified in Kubernetes; this | ||
| implies there should be a way to disable seccomp control in Kubernetes for | ||
| certain containers, or to run with a "no-op" or "unconfined" profile. | ||
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| Sometimes, applications that link to seccomp can use the default profile for a | ||
| container runtime, and restrict further on top of that. It is important to | ||
| note here that in this case, applications can only place _further_ | ||
| restrictions on themselves. It is not possible to re-grant the ability of a | ||
| process to make a system call once it has been removed with seccomp. | ||
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| As an example, elasticsearch manages its own seccomp filters in its code. | ||
| Currently, elasticsearch is capable of running in the context of the default | ||
| Docker profile, but if in the future, elasticsearch needed to be able to call | ||
| `ioperm` or `iopr` (both of which are disallowed in the default profile), it | ||
| should be possible to run elasticsearch by delegating the seccomp controls to | ||
| the pod. | ||
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| ### Use Case: Custom profiles | ||
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| Different applications have different requirements for seccomp profiles; it | ||
| should be possible to specify an arbitrary seccomp profile and use it in a | ||
| container. This is more of a concern for applications which need a higher | ||
| level of privilege than what is granted by the default profile for a cluster, | ||
| since applications that want to restrict privileges further can always make | ||
| additional calls in their own code. | ||
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| An example of an application that requires the use of a syscall disallowed in | ||
| the Docker default profile is Chrome, which needs `clone` to create a new user | ||
| namespace. Another example would be a program which uses `ptrace` to | ||
| implement a sandbox for user-provided code, such as | ||
| [eval.in](https://eval.in/). | ||
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| ## Community Work | ||
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| ### Container runtime support for seccomp | ||
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| #### Docker / opencontainers | ||
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| Docker supports the open container initiative's API for | ||
| seccomp, which is very close to the libseccomp API. It allows full | ||
| specification of seccomp filters, with arguments, operators, and actions. | ||
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| Docker allows the specification of a single seccomp filter. There are | ||
| community requests for: | ||
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| Issues: | ||
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| * [docker/22109](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22109): composable | ||
| seccomp filters | ||
| * [docker/21105](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22105): custom | ||
| seccomp filters for builds | ||
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| #### rkt / appcontainers | ||
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| The `rkt` runtime delegates to systemd for seccomp support; there is an open | ||
| issue to add support once `appc` supports it. The `appc` project has an open | ||
| issue to be able to describe seccomp as an isolator in an appc pod. | ||
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| The systemd seccomp facility is based on a whitelist of system calls that can | ||
| be made, rather than a full filter specification. | ||
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| Issues: | ||
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| * [appc/529](https://github.com/appc/spec/issues/529) | ||
| * [rkt/1614](https://github.com/coreos/rkt/issues/1614) | ||
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| #### HyperContainer | ||
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| [HyperContainer](https://hypercontainer.io) does not support seccomp. | ||
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| ### Other platforms and seccomp-like capabilities | ||
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| FreeBSD has a seccomp/capability-like facility called | ||
| [Capsicum](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=capsicum&sektion=4). | ||
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| #### lxd | ||
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| [`lxd`](http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/lxd) constrains containers using a default profile. | ||
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| Issues: | ||
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| * [lxd/1084](https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1084): add knobs for seccomp | ||
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| ## Proposed Design | ||
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| ### Seccomp API Resource? | ||
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| An earlier draft of this proposal described a new global API resource that | ||
| could be used to describe seccomp profiles. After some discussion, it was | ||
| determined that without a feedback signal from users indicating a need to | ||
| describe new profiles in the Kubernetes API, it is not possible to know | ||
| whether a new API resource is warranted. | ||
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| That being the case, we will not propose a new API resource at this time. If | ||
| there is strong community desire for such a resource, we may consider it in | ||
| the future. | ||
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| Instead of implementing a new API resource, we propose that pods be able to | ||
| reference seccomp profiles by name. Since this is an alpha feature, we will | ||
| use annotations instead of extending the API with new fields. | ||
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| ### API changes? | ||
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| In the alpha version of this feature we will use annotations to store the | ||
| names of seccomp profiles. The keys will be: | ||
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| `security.alpha.kubernetes.io/seccomp/container/<container name>` | ||
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| which will be used to set the seccomp profile of a container, and: | ||
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| `security.alpha.kubernetes.io/seccomp/pod` | ||
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| which will set the seccomp profile for the containers of an entire pod. If a | ||
| pod-level annotation is present, and a container-level annotation present for | ||
| a container, then the container-level profile takes precedence. | ||
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| The value of these keys should be container-runtime agnostic. We will | ||
| establish a format that expresses the conventions for distinguishing between | ||
| an unconfined profile, the container runtime's default, or a custom profile. | ||
| Since format of profile is likely to be runtime dependent, we will consider | ||
| profiles to be opaque to kubernetes for now. | ||
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| The following format is scoped as follows: | ||
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| 1. `runtime/default` - the default profile for the container runtime | ||
| 2. `unconfined` - unconfined profile, ie, no seccomp sandboxing | ||
| 3. `localhost/<profile-name>` - the profile installed to the node's local seccomp profile root | ||
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| Since seccomp profile schemes may vary between container runtimes, we will | ||
| treat the contents of profiles as opaque for now and avoid attempting to find | ||
| a common way to describe them. It is up to the container runtime to be | ||
| sensitive to the annotations proposed here and to interpret instructions about | ||
| local profiles. | ||
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| A new area on disk (which we will call the seccomp profile root) must be | ||
| established to hold seccomp profiles. A field will be added to the Kubelet | ||
| for the seccomp profile root and a knob (`--seccomp-profile-root`) exposed to | ||
| allow admins to set it. If unset, it should default to the `seccomp` | ||
| subdirectory of the kubelet root directory. | ||
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| ### Pod Security Policy annotation | ||
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| The `PodSecurityPolicy` type should be annotated with the allowed seccomp | ||
| profiles using the key | ||
| `security.alpha.kubernetes.io/allowedSeccompProfileNames`. The value of this | ||
| key should be a comma delimited list. | ||
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| ## Examples | ||
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| ### Unconfined profile | ||
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| Here's an example of a pod that uses the unconfined profile: | ||
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| ```yaml | ||
| apiVersion: v1 | ||
| kind: Pod | ||
| metadata: | ||
| name: trustworthy-pod | ||
| annotations: | ||
| security.alpha.kubernetes.io/seccomp/pod: unconfined | ||
| spec: | ||
| containers: | ||
| - name: trustworthy-container | ||
| image: sotrustworthy:latest | ||
| ``` | ||
| ### Custom profile | ||
| Here's an example of a pod that uses a profile called `example-explorer- | ||
| profile` using the container-level annotation: | ||
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| ```yaml | ||
| apiVersion: v1 | ||
| kind: Pod | ||
| metadata: | ||
| name: explorer | ||
| annotations: | ||
| security.alpha.kubernetes.io/seccomp/container/explorer: localhost/example-explorer-profile | ||
| spec: | ||
| containers: | ||
| - name: explorer | ||
| image: gcr.io/google_containers/explorer:1.0 | ||
| args: ["-port=8080"] | ||
| ports: | ||
| - containerPort: 8080 | ||
| protocol: TCP | ||
| volumeMounts: | ||
| - mountPath: "/mount/test-volume" | ||
| name: test-volume | ||
| volumes: | ||
| - name: test-volume | ||
| emptyDir: {} | ||
| ``` | ||
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