K8S Deny Intranet Access From All Containers

This article discusses the importance of securing Kubernetes and managing resources using distribution-specific methods. It also covers preventing intranet access through network policies, and considering manual/automatic cleanup for storage limits. Hardening guidelines are followed, and additional resources are provided for further information on available tools.

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constrain pod resources:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/

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to manually exceed the ephermal storage limit run:

fallocate -l 10G /bigfile

the pod will be evicted, volume and container will be purged, but the record is not automatically removed.

to cleanup the mess one may run a scheduled job like:

while true;
do
microk8s kubectl delete pods --field-selector=status.phase=Failed
microk8s kubectl delete pods --field-selector=status.phase=Unknown
sleep 60
done

or configure implementation dependent kube-controller-manager startup argument terminated-pod-gc-threshold=1.

for k3s edit /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml like:

kube-controller-manager-arg:
- 'terminated-pod-gc-threshold=1'

for microk8s, edit /var/snap/microk8s/current/args/kube-controller-manager

references:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-controller-manager/

https://docs.k3s.io/security/hardening-guide

https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/10448

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make sure you have a networkpolicy enabled cni first. usually included but be careful with minikube since that is a different story

apply these configs with kubectl apply -f <config_path>

interact with kubectl exec <pod_name> -it -- /bin/sh

deployment config:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: hello-world
labels:
app: hello-world
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: hello-world
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: hello-world
spec:
containers:
- name: alpine-container
image: alpine:3.7
command: ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]
resources:
limits:
ephemeral-storage: "4Gi"
dnsPolicy: None
dnsConfig:
nameservers:
- 8.8.8.8
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0

network policy config:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: deny-intranet-egress
spec:
podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: hello-world
policyTypes:
- Egress
egress:
- to:
- ipBlock:
cidr: ::/0
except:
- fc00::/7
- fe80::/10
- ipBlock:
cidr: 0.0.0.0/0
except:
- 0.0.0.0/8
- 10.0.0.0/8
- 100.64.0.0/10
- 169.254.0.0/16
- 172.16.0.0/12
- 192.168.0.0/16