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+/*
+Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+// Build the binary with `go build conformance.go`, then run the conformance binary on a node candidate.  If compiled
+// on a non-linux machine, must be cross compiled for the host.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net"
+	"os/exec"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"errors"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cadvisor"
+	"os"
+)
+
+const success = "\033[0;32mSUCESS\033[0m"
+const failed = "\033[0;31mFAILED\033[0m"
+const notConfigured = "\033[0;34mNOT CONFIGURED\033[0m"
+const skipped = "\033[0;34mSKIPPED\033[0m"
+
+var checkFlag = flag.String(
+	"check", "all", "what to check for conformance.  One or more of all,container-runtime,daemons,dns,firewall,kernel")
+
+func init() {
+	// Set this to false to undo util/logs.go settings it to true.  Prevents cadvisor log spam.
+	// Remove this once util/logs.go stops setting the flag to true.
+	flag.Set("logtostderr", "false")
+	flag.Parse()
+}
+
+// TODO: Should we write an e2e test for this?
+func main() {
+	o := strings.Split(*checkFlag, ",")
+	errs := check(o...)
+	if len(errs) > 0 {
+		os.Exit(1)
+	} else {
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+}
+
+// check returns errors found while checking the provided components.  Will prevent errors to stdout.
+func check(options ...string) []error {
+	errs := []error{}
+	for _, c := range options {
+		switch c {
+		case "all":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, kernel())
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, containerRuntime())
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, daemons())
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, firewall())
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, dns())
+		case "containerruntime":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, containerRuntime())
+		case "daemons":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, daemons())
+		case "dns":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, dns())
+		case "firewall":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, firewall())
+		case "kernel":
+			errs = appendNotNil(errs, kernel())
+		default:
+			fmt.Printf("Unrecognized option %s", c)
+			errs = append(errs, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("Unrecognized option %s", c)))
+		}
+	}
+	return errs
+}
+
+const dockerVersionRegex = `1\.[7-9]\.[0-9]+`
+
+// containerRuntime checks that a suitable container runtime is installed and recognized by cadvisor: docker 1.7-1.9
+func containerRuntime() error {
+	dockerRegex, err := regexp.Compile(dockerVersionRegex)
+	if err != nil {
+		// This should never happen and can only be fixed by changing the code
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	// Setup cadvisor to check the container environment
+	c, err := cadvisor.New(0 /*don't start the http server*/)
+	if err != nil {
+		return printError("Container Runtime Check: %s Could not start cadvisor %v", failed, err)
+	}
+
+	vi, err := c.VersionInfo()
+	if err != nil {
+		return printError("Container Runtime Check: %s Could not get VersionInfo %v", failed, err)
+	}
+
+	d := vi.DockerVersion
+	if !dockerRegex.Match([]byte(d)) {
+		return printError(
+			"Container Runtime Check: %s Docker version %s does not matching %s.  You may need to run as root or the "+
+				"user the kubelet will run under.", failed, d, dockerVersionRegex)
+	}
+
+	return printSuccess("Container Runtime Check: %s", success)
+}
+
+const kubeletClusterDnsRegexStr = `\/kubelet.*--cluster-dns=(\S+) `
+const kubeletClusterDomainRegexStr = `\/kubelet.*--cluster-domain=(\S+)`
+
+// dns checks that cluster dns has been properly configured and can resolve the kubernetes.default service
+func dns() error {
+	dnsRegex, err := regexp.Compile(kubeletClusterDnsRegexStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		// This should never happen and can only be fixed by changing the code
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	domainRegex, err := regexp.Compile(kubeletClusterDomainRegexStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		// This should never happen and can only be fixed by changing the code
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	h, err := net.LookupHost("kubernetes.default")
+	if err == nil {
+		return printSuccess("Dns Check (Optional): %s", success)
+	}
+	if len(h) > 0 {
+		return printSuccess("Dns Check (Optional): %s", success)
+	}
+
+	kubecmd, err := exec.Command("ps", "aux").CombinedOutput()
+
+	// look for the dns flag and parse the value
+	dns := dnsRegex.FindStringSubmatch(string(kubecmd))
+	if len(dns) < 2 {
+		return printSuccess(
+			"Dns Check (Optional): %s No hosts resolve to kubernetes.default.  kubelet will need to set "+
+				"--cluster-dns and --cluster-domain when run", notConfigured)
+	}
+
+	// look for the domain flag and parse the value
+	domain := domainRegex.FindStringSubmatch(string(kubecmd))
+	if len(domain) < 2 {
+		return printSuccess(
+			"Dns Check (Optional): %s No hosts resolve to kubernetes.default.  kubelet will need to set "+
+				"--cluster-dns and --cluster-domain when run", notConfigured)
+	}
+
+	// do a lookup with the flags the kubelet is running with
+	nsArgs := []string{"-q=a", fmt.Sprintf("kubernetes.default.%s", domain[1]), dns[1]}
+	if err = exec.Command("nslookup", nsArgs...).Run(); err != nil {
+		// Mark this as failed since there was a clear intention to set it up, but it is done so improperly
+		return printError(
+			"Dns Check (Optional): %s No hosts resolve to kubernetes.default  kubelet found, but cannot resolve "+
+				"kubernetes.default using nslookup %s error: %v", failed, strings.Join(nsArgs, " "), err)
+	}
+
+	// Can resolve kubernetes.default using the kubelete dns and domain values
+	return printSuccess("Dns Check (Optional): %s", success)
+}
+
+const cmdlineCGroupMemory = `cgroup_enable=memory`
+
+// kernel checks that the kernel has been configured correctly to support the required cgroup features
+func kernel() error {
+	cmdline, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/proc/cmdline")
+	if err != nil {
+		return printError("Kernel Command Line Check %s: Could not check /proc/cmdline", failed)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(string(cmdline), cmdlineCGroupMemory) {
+		return printError("Kernel Command Line Check %s: cgroup_enable=memory not enabled in /proc/cmdline", failed)
+	}
+	return printSuccess("Kernel Command Line %s", success)
+}
+
+const iptablesInputRegexStr = `Chain INPUT \(policy DROP\)`
+const iptablesForwardRegexStr = `Chain FORWARD \(policy DROP\)`
+
+// firewall checks that iptables does not have common firewall rules setup that would disrupt traffic
+func firewall() error {
+	out, err := exec.Command("iptables", "-L", "INPUT").CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		return printSuccess("Firewall Iptables Check %s: Could not run iptables", skipped)
+	}
+	inputRegex, err := regexp.Compile(iptablesInputRegexStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		// This should never happen and can only be fixed by changing the code
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	if inputRegex.Match(out) {
+		return printError("Firewall Iptables Check %s: Found INPUT rule matching %s", failed, iptablesInputRegexStr)
+	}
+
+	// Check GCE forward rules
+	out, err = exec.Command("iptables", "-L", "FORWARD").CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		return printSuccess("Firewall Iptables Check %s: Could not run iptables", skipped)
+	}
+	forwardRegex, err := regexp.Compile(iptablesForwardRegexStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		// This should never happen and can only be fixed by changing the code
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	if forwardRegex.Match(out) {
+		return printError("Firewall Iptables Check %s: Found FORWARD rule matching %s", failed, iptablesInputRegexStr)
+	}
+
+	return printSuccess("Firewall Iptables Check %s", success)
+}
+
+// daemons checks that the required node programs are running: kubelet, kube-proxy, and docker
+func daemons() error {
+	if exec.Command("pgrep", "-f", "kubelet").Run() != nil {
+		return printError("Daemon Check %s: kubelet process not found", failed)
+	}
+
+	if exec.Command("pgrep", "-f", "kube-proxy").Run() != nil {
+		return printError("Daemon Check %s: kube-proxy process not found", failed)
+	}
+
+	return printSuccess("Daemon Check %s", success)
+}
+
+// printError provides its arguments to print a format string to the console (newline terminated) and returns an
+// error with the same string
+func printError(s string, args ...interface{}) error {
+	es := fmt.Sprintf(s, args...)
+	fmt.Println(es)
+	return errors.New(es)
+}
+
+// printSuccess provides its arguments to print a format string to the console (newline terminated) and returns nil
+func printSuccess(s string, args ...interface{}) error {
+	fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf(s, args...))
+	return nil
+}
+
+// appendNotNil appends err to errs iff err is not nil
+func appendNotNil(errs []error, err error) []error {
+	if err != nil {
+		return append(errs, err)
+	}
+	return errs
+}