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Kubelet subdivided authz by default #53618

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tallclair opened this issue Oct 9, 2017 · 5 comments
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Kubelet subdivided authz by default #53618

tallclair opened this issue Oct 9, 2017 · 5 comments
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tallclair commented Oct 9, 2017 •
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Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?:
/kind feature

What happened:

Today, the Kubelet surfaces it's APIs through 2 ports: 10250 is the authenticated port, which provides full API access including the ability to exec into containers running on the node, and 10255 is the "readonly" port, which provides access to the readonly APIs (such as various stats & metrics) but is unauthenticated.

If an admin wants to run a secure cluster that doesn't potentially leak information through the stats, the read only port can be disabled. However, the ability to read stats is critical functionality, so monitoring & autoscaling needs to be configured via the authenticated port. The problem with this is it distributes credentials that have exec privileges on the node, greatly increasing attack surface via the monitoring apps.

What you expected to happen:

Rather than allowing all authenticated requests to the 10250 port, the Kubelet can be configured to delegate those requests to the apiserver via SubjectAccessReview, at which point all the regular cluster authz mechanisms work (e.g. RBAC). See https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-authentication-authorization/#kubelet-authorization for more details.

We should make this behavior the default, and configure apps like Heapster with the appropriate roles to work.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Run a Kubelet, visit the 10250 and 10255 ports. The 10250 API can easily be accessed via the master proxy: <master address>/api/v1/proxy/nodes/<node name>:10250/

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Alternatively, do we have any way for cluster components (Kubelets, in this case) to delegate authn & authz to the cluster? I.e. Kubelet asks the cluster to validate some credentials?

@tallclair tallclair changed the title Authenticated Kubelet read-only port Kubelet subdivided authz by default Oct 9, 2017
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Thanks @liggitt for setting me straight. I've updated this issue to make the existing mechanisms the default.

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mtaufen added a commit to mtaufen/kubernetes that referenced this issue Feb 14, 2018
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Secure Kubelet's componentconfig defaults while maintaining CLI compa…
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…tibility

This updates the Kubelet's componentconfig defaults, while applying the
legacy defaults to values from options.NewKubeletConfiguration().
This keeps defaults the same for the command line and improves the
security of defaults when you load config from a file.

See: kubernetes#53618
See: kubernetes#53833 (comment)
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Secure Kubelet's componentconfig defaults while maintaining CLI compatibility

This updates the Kubelet's componentconfig defaults, while applying the legacy defaults to values from options.NewKubeletConfiguration(). This keeps defaults the same for the command line and improves the security of defaults when you load config from a file.

See: #53618
See: #53833 (comment)

Also moves EnableServer to KubeletFlags, per @tallclair's comments on #53833.

We should find way of generating documentation for config file defaults, so that people can easily look up what's different from flags.

```release-note
Action required: Default values differ between the Kubelet's componentconfig (config file) API and the Kubelet's command line. Be sure to review the default values when migrating to using a config file.
```
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jingxu97 pushed a commit to jingxu97/kubernetes that referenced this issue Mar 13, 2018
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Secure Kubelet's componentconfig defaults while maintaining CLI compa…
5b4f40f 
…tibility

This updates the Kubelet's componentconfig defaults, while applying the
legacy defaults to values from options.NewKubeletConfiguration().
This keeps defaults the same for the command line and improves the
security of defaults when you load config from a file.

See: kubernetes#53618
See: kubernetes#53833 (comment)
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