Not sure about Exercise 6.6, security review
Hi,
I am not 100% sure I nailed the exercise in the topic.
In order to make nginx run I had to add a fsGroup: 101 so that the pod mounted the volumes with the correct user/group permissions (mounted volumes in order to overcome the permission denied issues I had with /var/cache/nginx and /var/run)
Also, it seems that using capabilities when the pod is not running as root won't work (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56374) so I used the suggested sysctls (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56374#issuecomment-928917495). What I am not sure about is the fact that I had to modify the pod securityContext rather than the container securityContext and that the course does not mention sysctls in the Lab 6.6.
here's my solution:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: securityreview
spec:
securityContext:
runAsUser: 101
fsGroup: 101 ##need this in order to mount volumes with correct permission
sysctls: ## this was found in in issue 56374: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56374#issuecomment-928917495
- name: net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start
value: "78" #pick a port number less than 80 and it will work
containers:
- name: webguy
image: nginx
securityContext:
runAsUser: 101
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
# this is not working because when going from UID 0 to UID <> 0 the capabilities are removed
# capabilities:
# add: ["NET_ADMIN","NET_BIND_SERVICE"]
volumeMounts:
- name: nginx-temp
mountPath: /var/cache/nginx
- name: run-temp
mountPath: /var/run
volumes:
- name: nginx-temp
emptyDir: {}
- name: run-temp
emptyDir: {}
Is this a correct answer or am I missing something ?
Answers
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Yes this indeed works i tried and it worked for me too. But why do we have to use the fsGroup and sysctls which are not even explained in the labs and also why we have to use volumes and volumemounts?
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because the content creators, either purposely or neglectfully, left course takers to flounder in this domain review. leaving everyone to come up with their own solutions and maybe along the way absorbing some of the content by trial and error.
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