AppArmor support for StarlingX
This specification describes the introduction of AppArmor into the StarlingX solution. Story: 2010310 Task: 46355 Signed-off-by: jmishra <jagatguruprasad.mishra@windriver.com> Change-Id: Id76a3da52c148c77bfd78cafbe583b94345e491a
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StarlingX AppArmor Support
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Storyboard:
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https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2010310
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This specification describes the introduction of AppArmor into the
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StarlingX solution, initially for the purposes of running end user's
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hosted containers under AppArmor profiles.
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AppArmor is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) system built on Linux's
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LSM (Linux Security Modules) interface. In practice, the kernel queries
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AppArmor before each system call to know whether the process is authorized
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to do the given operation. Through this mechanism, AppArmor confines programs
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to a limited set of resources.
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AppArmor applies a set of rules (known as a “profile”) on each program. The
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profile applied by the kernel depends on the installation path of the program
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being executed, the rules applied do not depend on the user. All users face
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the same set of rules when they are executing the same program but traditional
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user permissions still apply and might result in different behavior.
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AppArmor profiles contain a list of access control rules on resources that each
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program can make use of. Each profile can be loaded either in enforcing or
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complaining mode. The former enforces the policy and reports violation attempts,
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while the latter does not enforce the policy but still logs the system calls
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that would have been denied.
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AppArmor helps administrators in running a more secure kubernetes deployment by
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restricting what containers/pods are allowed to do, and/or provide better
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auditing through system logs.The access needed by a container/pod is configured
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through profiles tuned to allow the access such as Linux capabilities, network
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access, file permissions, etc.
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Problem description
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Need a mechanism for restricting application pods run by the end users. AppArmor does
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this by allowing the system administrator to restrict programs' capabilities
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with per-program profiles.Then Kubernetes' container.apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io
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annotation can be used in a pod spec to assign an AppArmor profile to a pod.
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Management of AppArmor profiles across all the kubernetes hosts of a StarlingX kubernetes
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cluster should be simple for end user.
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There are concerns over the system performance degradation when enabling the
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AppArmor. However, some end users want it enabled for security reasons, and are willing
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to accept the system performance degradation.
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Use Cases
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AppArmor can be optionally enabled on a per host basis:
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* Default recommendation will be that AppArmor is enabled on all hosts
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* However, if required (e.g. to avoid performance impact on some cards), user could choose which host to enable AppArmor profiles (e.g., Enable AppArmor only on controllers in a Standard System) NOTE In this case, a user would need to use labels and node-selector in pod spec to ensure the pod is only scheduled on nodes with AppArmor enabled.
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If AppArmor is enabled on host(s) of a StarlingX system, a user will be able to run selected user's hosted application pods under a selected AppArmor profile by specifying the AppArmor profile in the pod's spec.
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**NOTE** Support for AppArmor profiles on the StarlingX Platform entities (both host processes and containers) themselves, is left to a future release.
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Proposed change
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===============
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This change provides a way to enable/disable on a particular host.
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* Default recommendation will be that AppArmor is enabled on all hosts
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* However, if required (e.g. to avoid performance impact on some hosts), user could choose
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which host to enable AppArmor profiles (e.g., Enable AppArmor only on controllers in a Standard System)
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**NOTE** In this case, a user would need to use labels and node-selector in pod spec to ensure the pod
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is only scheduled on nodes with AppArmor enabled.
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In order apply the profiles to a particular pod, the profiles need to be available to the host machine
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where pod is launched. Security Profile Operator (SPO, https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/security-profiles-operator)
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provides AppArmor profile management (i.e. loading/unloading) across k8s nodes. SPO defines an AppArmor Profile CRD, such
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that end users' can define AppArmor profiles for SPO to manage.
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SPO will be integrated as a system application using FluxCD manifest which utilizes helm chart that
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deploys a controller/operator for centrally managing the AppArmor Profile resources, a webhook for validation of AppArmor
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Profile resources and a daemonset for loading/unloading the AppArmor Profiles. The DaemonSet configuration creates an SPO
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pod/container on each host in the StarlingX cluster.
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Creating a DaemonSet configuration for AppArmor container ensures that SPO will run on all kubernetes nodes,
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such as controllers, all-in-one controllers and worker nodes.
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Once an AppArmor profile is loaded to the K8S nodes, it can be applied to a particular pod using annotations.
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| example: container.apparmor.security.beta.kubernetes.io/<pod_name>:localhost/<profile_ref>. Please refer
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https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/security/apparmor/#example
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Alternatives
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In order apply the profiles to a particular pod, the profiles need to be available to the host
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machine where pod is launched. There are several solutions available and below alternatives were evaluated:
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* security-profiles-operator
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* apparmor-loader
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* kube_apparmor_Manager
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* Manually copying and loading profiles on each host (DEV Options)
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Below is a comparision table
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.. list-table:: Alternatives to load AppArmor profiles in K8s cluster
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:widths: 10 20 30 20 20
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:header-rows: 1
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* -
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- AppArmor Loader
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- Security Profile Operator(SPO)
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- AppArmor_Kube_Manager
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- Manually Loading Profiles (DEV options)
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* - Community Type
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- K8S
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- K8S
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- Private, sysdiglab
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- NA
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* - Approach
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- Daemon Set
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- Daemon Set
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- SSH based copy
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- Manual copy (SSH based)
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* - Developement Type
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- POC
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- Controlled as Alpha, beta release
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- Not sure
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- NA
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* - Active
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- Last updated 4 years back
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- Very Much Active
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- Last updated 2 years back
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- NA
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* - Release Frequency
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- NA
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- Quarterly basis
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- NA
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- NA
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* - Latest Version
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- No version control
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- V0.4.3
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- V0.0.5
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- NA
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* - Last Release Data
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-
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- Jun 07, 2022
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- Apr 04, 2020
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- NA
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* - Roadmap
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- No
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- Yes, KEP and Roadmap in place
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- No
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* - Github Link
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- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/test/images/apparmor-loader
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- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/security-profiles-operator
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- https://github.com/sysdiglabs/kube-apparmor-manager
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- NA
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* - Functionality
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- Only Load AppArmor profiles on all worker nodes in k8s cluster
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- Out-of-tree Kubernetes enhancement | Supports SELinux, seccomp, AppArmor | AppArmor profiles load and unload | Feature enabling and disabling using feature gate | Supplementary features – Metrics , service monitoring, log enricher, | Debugging features- CPU and Memory profile endpoints
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- Load AppArmor profiles on all worker nodes in k8s cluster | Sync feature to cater profile change synchronize across worker nodes
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- Copy the profiles on each host using SSH | Load the profile on each host using aa-enforce, aa-complain, or apparmor_parser | Unload the profiles on each host using aa-disable or apparmer_parser
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Security Profile Operator (SPO) is the best option available and will continue our effort in incorporating it in StarlingX based on below advantages.
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* Better community support
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* Feature rich
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* Roadmap in place
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There are concerns about the stability of AppArmor support in SPO and the basic functionality of deploying AppArmor
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profiles to various nodes is not working at this point. We will continue our effort to
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track SPO fixes to apparmor functionality.
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* Retest updates to SPO and provide feedback to contributor quickly
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* Offer any assistance we can to SPO contributor
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* Identify any missing/desired functionality (e.g. complain vs enforce)
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For now, we will proceed in parallel with
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* using DEV option of linux AppArmor tools (aa commands, https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/ManPages) to load apparmor profiles on hosts AND
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* work closely in testing and providing feedback (and possibly changes) to SPO project
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Data model impact
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A host level attribute "apparmor" would be added to the host table.
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This can contain two possible values "enabled" or "disabled"
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REST API impact
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AppArmor can be enabled or disabled at runtime on a per-host basis.
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* Below cli command(s) would be used to enable or disable AppArmor in kernel for a particular host
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* system host-lock <hostname>
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* system host-update <hostname> apparmor=enabled/disabled **Example:** system host-update controller-0 apparmor=enabled
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* system host-unlock <hostname>
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The above command(s) would enable the AppArmor in kernel with NO services (on host or containerized)
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in the WRCP/StarlingX Solution running under an apparmor profile
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**NOTE** will explore whether default profiles enabled in Debian Bullseye can be used as default
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when AppArmor is enabled
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* Changes in the below API to reflect AppArmor. |
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GET /v1/ihosts/{host_id} |
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Description: Shows detailed information about a specific host |
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INPUT: |
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host_id : csapi:UUID: part of user-info |
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Output: |
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"apparmor": "enabled" or "apparmor": "disabled" would be added to the output json |
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* Addition of a new attribute 'apparmor' to the below API:
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| PATCH /v1/ihosts/{host_id}
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| Apparmor attribute can be modified. Support would be added for apparmor (xsd:string)
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| INPUT:
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| host_id : csapi:UUID: part of user-info
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| Example: [
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| {
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| "path":"/apparmor",
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| "value":"enabled",
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| "op":"replace"
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| }
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| Output:
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| "apparmor": "enabled" or "apparmor": "disabled" would be added to the output json
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| **NOTE**: Changing the 'apparmor' attribute, will ONLY be allowed when host is locked.
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Security impact
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The AppArmor helps in running a more secure kubernetes deployment by restricting what
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containers/pods are allowed to do. User should be able to run selected user's hosted
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application pods under a selected AppArmor profile. AppArmor enforces the policy defined
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in the profile as well as reports policy violation attempts.
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Other end user impact
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* If apparmor is NOT enabled (disabled by default), then there is NO impact on end user
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* If apparmor is used,
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* there is admin user impact to enable apparmor on hosts and load apparmor profiles on host and
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* there is general user impact that they 'can' run hosted containers under apparmor profiles for enhanced security.
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Performance Impact
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AppArmor is known to have a performance impact when running. There will be a performance impact characterization
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(StarlingX Infrastructure Operations and Datapaths) of enabling AppArmor in the StarlingX which involved getting data with:
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* apparmor disabled
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* apparmor enabled but NO apparmor profile applied to datapath app pod
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* apparmor enabled and apparmor profile applied to datapath app pod
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Other deployer impact
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Developer impact
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None.
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Upgrade impact
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A new host level attribute "apparmor" would be added to the host table. There should not be any impact on backup and restore, upgrade, and rollback.
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Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee:
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* Jagatguru Prasad Mishra (jmishra)
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Other contributors:
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* Sirin Shaikh (sshaikh)
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* Kirti Singh (ksingh)
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* Rahul Roshan Kachchap (rkachchap)
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Repos Impacted
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* starlingx/config and starlingx/stx-puppet repo would be modified to add API/CLI support for AppArmor.
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* A new repo would be created for security-profiles-operator.
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Work Items
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* Integration of SPO as a system application
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* CLI, RESTAPI, DB update and config update backend
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* Performance impact testing
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* End-to-end integration testing
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Dependencies
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* Security Profile Operator (SPO, https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/security-profiles-operator)
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Testing
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Testing will involve:
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* Unit test cases for the new code introduced
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* Installing/enabling the SPO system app
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* verifying the enabling/disabling of Apparmor at host level using API and CLI
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* Configuring Apparmor profiles across hosts
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* Configuring Kubernetes Pods with Apparmor profiles
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* Verifying that a policy violation by a container is logged in file "/var/log/syslog".
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* Backup and Restore testing
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* Upgrades testing
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* DC testing
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Documentation Impact
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====================
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Some information that is useful to be documented will be:
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* enabling Apparmor per host
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* Configuring Apparmor profiles across hosts
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* Configuring Kubernetes Pods with Apparmor profiles with example to do simple test
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* Guidelines on how to write/develop apparmor profiles for your containers using aa-genprof
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References
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* https://www.appvia.io/blog/how-to-use-the-security-profiles-operator
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* https://medium.com/information-and-technology/so-what-is-apparmor-64d7ae211ed
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* https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/security-profiles-operator
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* https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/test/images/apparmor-loader
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* https://github.com/sysdiglabs/kube-apparmor-manager
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* https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/security/apparmor/#example
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History
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* - Release Name
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- Description
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* - STX-8.0
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- Introduced
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