Can't assign a deployment creation role to serviceAccount in Kubernetes - kubernetes

I want to have a service account that can create a deployment. So I am creating a service account, then a role and then a rolebinding. The yaml files are below:
ServiceAccount:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: testsa
namespace: default
Role:
kind: Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: testrole
namespace: default
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
- batch
- apps
resources:
- jobs
- pods
- deployments
- deployments/scale
- replicasets
verbs:
- create
- delete
- get
- list
- patch
- update
- watch
- scale
RoleBinding:
kind: RoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: testrolebinding
namespace: default
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: testsa
namespace: default
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: testrole
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
But after applying these files, when I do the following command to check if the service account can create a deployment, it answers no.
kubectl auth can-i --as=system:serviceaccount:default:testsa create deployment
The exact answer is:
no - no RBAC policy matched
It works fine when I do checks for Pods.
What am I doing wrong?
My kubernetes versions are as follows:
kubectl version --short
Client Version: v1.16.1
Server Version: v1.12.10-gke.17

Since you're using a 1.12 cluster, you should include the extensions API group in the Role for the deployments resource.
This was deprecated in Kubernetes 1.16 in favor of the apps group: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/07/18/api-deprecations-in-1-16/

Related

Does Fluentd DaemonSet necessarily needs a ClusterRole or can it be used with a Role as well?

I have a namespace namespace:development in my K8s cluster. I wanted to deploy Fluentd following:
fluentd-daemonset-elasticsearch-rbac.yaml
I ONLY changed:
Type of role from ClusterRole to Role (the rules parts is the same)
Name of the ServiceAccount
Instead of namespace: kube-system I changed it to namespace: development in ServiceAccount, Role and RoleBinding
ServiceAccount in RoleBinding to my own service account
When I deployed I got the following error:
start_pod_watch: Exception encountered setting up pod watch from Kubernetes API v1 endpoint https://<ip>:443/api: pods is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:development:my-svc-account" cannot list resource "pods" in API group "" at the cluster scope ({"kind":"Status","apiVersion":"v1","metadata":{},"status":"Failure","message":"pods is forbidden: User \\"system:serviceaccount:development:my-svc-account\\" cannot list resource \\"pods\\" in API group \\"\\" at the cluster scope","reason":"Forbidden","details":{"kind":"pods"},"code":403} (Fluent::ConfigError)
My question: Is this mandatory to have a clusterRole to deploy Fluentd in a cluster?
If you have change the Clusterrole to role you also have to update the bindings.
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: fluentd
namespace: development
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
name: fluentd
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- pods
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
---
kind: RoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: fluentd
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: fluentd
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: fluentd
namespace: development
---

Kubernetes service account to access all the namespaces

I am trying to access all the namespaces and pods from my another pod. So, I have created clusterrole, clusterrolebinding and service account. I am able access the only customer namespace resources. But I need to access all the namespace resources. Is it possible?
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: spinupcontainers
namespace: customer
---
kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: spinupcontainers
namespace: customer
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["pods", "pods/exec"]
verbs: ["get", "list", "delete", "patch", "create"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: spinupcontainers
namespace: customer
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: spinupcontainers
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: spinupcontainers
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
Could anyone help to resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance
It seems in your YAML example you are using a RoleBinding as opposed to a ClusterRoleBinding. A RoleBinding only grants those permissions inside of a namespace. See also the Kubernetes Documentation on this topic:
A RoleBinding grants permissions within a specific namespace whereas a
ClusterRoleBinding grants that access cluster-wide.
Most important thing is that you have to connect your service account to your cluster role with proper cluster role binding. Because binding types decide that scope of service account abilities. Under these circumstances, you have to describe cluster role binding as shown below;
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: spinupcontainers
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: spinupcontainers
namespace: customer
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: spinupcontainers
apiGroup: "rbac.authorization.k8s.io"
If you want to test this within the pod you would describe respective service account for pod like below:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
run: busybox
name: busybox
spec:
containers:
- args:
- sleep
- "4800"
image: busybox:1.28
name: busybox
resources: {}
dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
restartPolicy: Never
serviceAccountName: default
status: {}
And then finally you need to ssh to pod and can execute proper curl command with using service account token. Do not forget that you can find the token file in pod by defined service account to pod yaml before (in /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount). After that you have to execute API call to use kubernetes API server service (ıf you used kubeadm to create the cluster. It has been already defined in default namespace as named kubernetes). In the below, you can find proper apı call to get default namespace secrets
curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" https://<kubernetes-apı-fqdn>/api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets

Kubernetes cluster role with permissions to watch events

I'm trying to create a cluster role with permissions to watch events, but it seems that I'm missing something.
I'm using the following:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: watch-events
namespace: test
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: watch-events-cluster
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- events
verbs:
- watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: watch-events-cluster
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: watch-events-cluster
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: watch-events
namespace: test
No mater what I try with kubectl auth can-i watch events --as watch-events I always get a no.
Am I missing something?
The RBAC is correct and will give cluster wide permission to watch events across all namespaces but the kubectl command is incorrect.The command should be
kubectl auth can-i watch events --as=system:serviceaccount:test:watch-events
If you are making api calls against the swagger api for Kubernetes, you need to specify the Events api group properly with the suffix .k8s.io
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.19/#-strong-api-groups-strong-
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: my-custom-role
namespace: default
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ''
- events.k8s.io
resources:
- events
verbs:
- '*'
---
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#service-account-permissions
Default RBAC policies grant scoped permissions to control-plane components, nodes, and controllers, but grant no permissions to service accounts outside the kube-system namespace (beyond discovery permissions given to all authenticated users).

Receiving error when calling Kubernetes API from the Pod

I have .NET Standard (4.7.2) simple application that is containerized. It has a method to list all namespaces in a cluster. I used csharp kubernetes client to interact with the API. According to official documentation the default credential of API server are created in a pod and used to communicate with API server, but while calling kubernetes API from the pod, getting following error:
Operation returned an invalid status code 'Forbidden'
My deployment yaml is very minimal:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: cmd-dotnetstdk8stest
spec:
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: windows
containers:
- name: cmd-dotnetstdk8stest
image: eddyuk/dotnetstdk8stest:1.0.8-cmd
ports:
- containerPort: 80
I think you have RBAC activatet inside your Cluster. You need to assign a ServiceAccount to your pod which containing a Role, that allows this ServerAccount to get a list of all Namespaces. When no ServiceAccount is specified in the Pod-Template, the namespaces default ServiceAccount will be assigned to the pods running in this namespace.
First, you should create the Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
namespace: <YOUR NAMESPACE>
name: namespace-reader
rules:
- apiGroups: [""] # "" indicates the core API group
resources: ["namespaces"] # Resource is namespaces
verbs: ["get", "list"] # Allowing this roll to get and list namespaces
Create a new ServiceAccount inside your Namespace
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: application-sa
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
Assign your Role created Role to the Service-Account:
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: allow-namespace-listing
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: application-sa # Your newly created Service-Account
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: namespace-reader # Your newly created Role
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
Assign the new Role to your Pod by adding a ServiceAccount to your Pod Spec:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: podname
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
spec:
serviceAccountName: application-sa
You can read more about RBAC in the official docs. Maybe you want to use kubectl-Commands instead of YAML definitions.

RBAC not working as expected when trying to lock namespace

I'm trying to lock down a namespace in kubernetes using RBAC so I followed this tutorial.
I'm working on a baremetal cluster (no minikube, no cloud provider) and installed kubernetes using Ansible.
I created the folowing namespace :
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
name: lockdown
Service account :
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: sa-lockdown
namespace: lockdown
Role :
kind: Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: lockdown
rules:
- apiGroups: [""] # "" indicates the core API group
resources: [""]
verbs: [""]
RoleBinding :
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: rb-lockdown
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: sa-lockdown
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: lockdown
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
And finally I tested the authorization using the next command
kubectl auth can-i get pods --namespace lockdown --as system:serviceaccount:lockdown:sa-lockdown
This SHOULD be returning "No" but I got "Yes" :-(
What am I doing wrong ?
Thx
A couple possibilities:
are you running the "can-i" check against the secured port or unsecured port (add --v=6 to see). Requests made against the unsecured (non-https) port are always authorized.
RBAC is additive, so if there is an existing clusterrolebinding or rolebinding granting "get pods" permissions to that service account (or one of the groups system:serviceaccounts:lockdown, system:serviceaccounts, or system:authenticated), then that service account will have that permission. You cannot "ungrant" permissions by binding more restrictive roles
I finally found what was the problem.
The role and rolebinding must be created inside the targeted namespace.
I changed the following role and rolebinding types by specifying the namespace inside the yaml directly.
kind: Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: lockdown
namespace: lockdown
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- pods
verbs:
- get
- watch
- list
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: rb-lockdown
namespace: lockdown
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: sa-lockdown
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: lockdown
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
In this example I gave permission to the user sa-lockdown to get, watch and list the pods in the namespace lockdown.
Now if I ask to get the pods : kubectl auth can-i get pods --namespace lockdown --as system:serviceaccount:lockdown:sa-lockdown it will return yes.
On the contrary if ask to get the deployments : kubectl auth can-i get deployments --namespace lockdown --as system:serviceaccount:lockdown:sa-lockdown it will return no.
You can also leave the files like they were in the question and simply create them using kubectl create -f <file> -n lockdown.