Important

Notice: Starting from Kubewarden release 1.32.0, all code from this repository has been merged into github.com/kubewarden/policies, which is now a monorepo containing policies. Please refer to that repository for future updates and development. This repository is now archived. Development continues in the new location.

Kubewarden policy volumemounts-policy

Description

Policy that inspects containers, init containers, and ephemeral containers, and restricts their usage of volumes by checking the volume name being used in volumeMounts[*].name.

The policy can either target Pods, or workload resources (Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, ReplicationControllers, Jobs, CronJobs) by setting the policy's spec.rules accordingly.

Both have trade-offs:

• Policy targets Pods: Different kind of resources (be them native or CRDs) can create Pods. By having the policy target Pods, we guarantee that all the Pods are going to be compliant, even those created from CRDs. However, this could lead to confusion among users, as high level Kubernetes resources would be successfully created, but they would stay in a non reconciled state. Example: a Deployment creating a non-compliant Pod would be created, but it would never have all its replicas running.
• Policy targets workload resources (e.g: Deployment): the policy inspect higher order resource (e.g. Deployment): users will get immediate feedback about rejections. However, non compliant pods created by another high level resource (be it native to Kubernetes, or a CRD), may not get rejected.

Settings

reject: anyIn # one of anyIn (default, denylist), anyNotIn (allowlist), allAreUsed, notAllAreUsed
volumeMountsNames:  # list of volumeMounts.name to match using the defined reject operator
  - foo
  - bar
  - baz

• anyIn (default): checks if any of the volumeMountsNames are in the Pod/Workload resource
• anyNotIn: checks if any of the volumeMountsNames are not in the Pod/Workload resource
• allAreUsed: checks if all of the volumeMountsNames are in the Pod/Workload resource
• notAllAreUsed: checks if all of the volumeMountsNames are not in the Pod/Workload resource

Examples

# denylist, reject volumeMounts named `my-volume` or `my-volume2`
reject: anyIn
volumeMountsNames:
  - my-volume
  - my-volume2

# allowlist, only allow volumeMounts named `my-volume3` or `my-volume4`
reject: anyNotIn
volumeMountsNames:
  - my-volume3
  - my-volume4

# container cannot use both volumes at once, only one or the other
reject: allAreUsed
volumeMountsNames:
  - my-volume5
  - my-volume6

# container can use both volumes at once, but not only one of them
reject: notAllAreUsed
volumeMountsNames:
  - my-volume5
  - my-volume6