Running kubeaudit in a Cluster

Kubeaudit can be run in a Kubernetes cluster by using a Docker image.

We no longer release images to Docker Hub (since Docker Hub sunset Free Team organizations). For the time being, old images are still available but may stop being available at any time. We will start publishing images to the Github Container registry soon.

Without RBAC

Example Job configuration:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: default

---

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        container.apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/kubeaudit: runtime/default
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: kubeaudit
      restartPolicy: OnFailure
      securityContext:
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containers:
        - name: kubeaudit
          image: shopify/kubeaudit:v0.11
          args: ["all", "--exitcode", "0"]
          securityContext:
            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
            capabilities:
              drop: ["all"]
            privileged: false
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
            runAsNonRoot: true

With RBAC

If RBAC is enabled on the cluster:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: default

---

kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
rules:
  - apiGroups: [""]
    resources:
      - pods
      - podtemplates
      - replicationcontrollers
      - namespaces
      - serviceaccounts
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
    resources:
      - daemonsets
      - statefulsets
      - deployments
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["batch"]
    resources:
      - cronjobs
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["networking.k8s.io"]
    resources:
      - networkpolicies
    verbs: ["list"]

---

kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: kubeaudit
    namespace: default
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: kubeaudit

---

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        container.apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/kubeaudit: runtime/default
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: kubeaudit
      restartPolicy: OnFailure
      securityContext:
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containers:
        - name: kubeaudit
          image: shopify/kubeaudit:v0.11
          args: ["all", "--exitcode", "0"]
          securityContext:
            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
            capabilities:
              drop: ["all"]
            privileged: false
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
            runAsNonRoot: true

With RBAC and a Specific Namespace

If you are running kubeaudit on a specific namespace and don't want to grant it cluster wide access, the binding can be made into a namespaced binding, but note that kubeaudit will still need to be able to list namespaces at the cluster level (as namespace resources don't have a namespaced scope).

In the following example, the kubeaudit Job is created in the kubeaudit namespace and is assigned a ServiceAccount which can list namespaces at a cluster scope but can only list the other resources for the provided namespace.

Important: Replace the two instances of <TARGET_NAMESPACE> with the namespace you want kubeaudit to audit:

# Optionally, run kubeaudit in its own namespace
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit

---

# Don't allow internet traffic in or out of the kubeaudit namespace
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: default-deny
  namespace: kubeaudit
spec:
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress
  - Egress

---

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: kubeaudit

---

kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit-namespaces
rules:
  - apiGroups: [""]
    resources:
      - namespaces
    verbs: ["list"]

---

kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
rules:
  - apiGroups: [""]
    resources:
      - pods
      - podtemplates
      - replicationcontrollers
      - serviceaccounts
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
    resources:
      - daemonsets
      - statefulsets
      - deployments
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["batch"]
    resources:
      - cronjobs
    verbs: ["list"]
  - apiGroups: ["networking.k8s.io"]
    resources:
      - networkpolicies
    verbs: ["list"]

---

kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit-namespaces
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: kubeaudit
    namespace: kubeaudit
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: kubeaudit-namespaces

---

kind: RoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: <TARGET_NAMESPACE>
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: kubeaudit
    namespace: kubeaudit
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: kubeaudit

---

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: kubeaudit
  namespace: kubeaudit
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        container.apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/kubeaudit: runtime/default
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: kubeaudit
      restartPolicy: OnFailure
      securityContext:
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault
      containers:
        - name: kubeaudit
          image: shopify/kubeaudit:v0.11
          args: ["all", "--exitcode", "0", "--namespace", "<TARGET_NAMESPACE>"]
          securityContext:
            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
            capabilities:
              drop: ["all"]
            privileged: false
            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
            runAsNonRoot: true