Kubernetes Policy Controller

The module deploys Kyverno policy controller and its baseline policies to a Kubernetes cluster

Kyverno is a policy engine that helps to automate security, compliance, best practices validation, and deliver secure self-service.

Key features:

use YAML and CEL (Common Expressions Language) to author policies, with no new language to learn!
manage policies as declarative Kubernetes resources
enforce policies as a Kubernetes admission controller, CLI-based scanner, and at runtime
validate, mutate, generate, or cleanup (remove) any Kubernetes resource
verify container images and metadata for software supply chain security
policy reporting using the OpenReport format
flexible policy exception management

Once you have a Corewide Solutions Portal account, this one-time action will use your browser session to retrieve credentials:

 shellterraform login solutions.corewide.com

Provision instructions

Initialize mandatory providers:

Copy and paste into your Terraform configuration and insert the variables:

 hclmodule "tf_k8s_policy_controller" {
  source  = "solutions.corewide.com/kubernetes/tf-k8s-policy-controller/helm"
  version = "~> 1.1.0"

  # specify module inputs here or try one of the examples below
  ...
}

Initialize the setup:

 shellterraform init

Define update strategy

Corewide DevOps team strictly follows Semantic Versioning Specification to provide our clients with products that have predictable upgrades between versions. We recommend pinning patch versions of our modules using pessimistic constraint operator (~>) to prevent breaking changes during upgrades.

To get new features during the upgrades (without breaking compatibility), use ~> 1.1 and run terraform init -upgrade

For the safest setup, use strict pinning with version = "1.1.0"

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v1.1.0 released 2 weeks, 3 days ago

New version approx. every 9 weeks

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The module deploys Kyverno policy controller and its baseline policies to a Kubernetes cluster

Kyverno is a policy engine that helps to automate security, compliance, best practices validation, and deliver secure self-service.

Key features:

use YAML and CEL (Common Expressions Language) to author policies, with no new language to learn!
manage policies as declarative Kubernetes resources
enforce policies as a Kubernetes admission controller, CLI-based scanner, and at runtime
validate, mutate, generate, or cleanup (remove) any Kubernetes resource
verify container images and metadata for software supply chain security
policy reporting using the OpenReport format
flexible policy exception management

Policy controller setup with custom Kyverno's implementation of the Kubernetes Pod Security Standard. Only certain rules from the standard baseline ruleset and a custom rule for Ingress Nginx with a nodeSelector set:

 hclmodule "kyverno" {
  source  = "solutions.corewide.com/kubernetes/tf-k8s-policy-controller/helm"
  version = "~> 1.1"

  name_prefix = "foo"
  namespace   = "kyverno"

  kyverno_pod_policies = {
    security_standard = "custom"

    security_policies = [
      "restrict-sysctls",
      "disallow-host-namespaces",
      "disallow-capabilities",
    ]

    custom_policies = [
      {
        apiVersion = "kyverno.io/v1"
        kind       = "ClusterPolicy"

        metadata = {
          name = "restrict-ingress-classes"

          annotations = {
            "policies.kyverno.io/category"   = "Sample"
            "policies.kyverno.io/minversion" = "1.6.0"
            "policies.kyverno.io/severity"   = "medium"
            "policies.kyverno.io/subject"    = "Ingress"
            "policies.kyverno.io/title"      = "Restrict Ingress Classes"
          }
        }

        spec = {
          validationFailureAction = "Audit"
          background              = true

          rules = [
            {
              name = "validate-ingress"

              match = {
                any = [
                  {
                    resources = {
                      kinds = [
                        "Ingress",
                      ]
                    }
                  },
                ]
              }

              validate = {
                message = "Unknown ingress class."

                pattern = {
                  metadata = {
                    annotations = {
                      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class" = "HAProxy | nginx"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            },
          ]
        }
      },
    ]
  }

  node_selector = {
    "cloud.google.com/gke-nodepool" = "maintenance"
  }
}

The basic setup of policy controller along with Kyverno's implementation of the Kubernetes Pod Security Standards with a baseline policy preset:

 hclmodule "kyverno" {
  source  = "solutions.corewide.com/kubernetes/tf-k8s-policy-controller/helm"
  version = "~> 1.1"

  namespace = "kyverno"
}

Variable	Description	Type	Default	Required	Sensitive
`namespace`	The namespace to install resources in	`string`		yes	no
`app_version`	Kyverno controller image version	`string`	`v1.19.1`	no	no
`chart_version`	Kyverno controller Helm chart version	`string`	`3.9.1`	no	no
`controller_custom_values`	Custom values to pass to the policy controller Helm chart as a block	`any`	`{}`	no	no
`create_namespace`	Indicates creation of dedicated namespace for the resources	`bool`	`true`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies`	Kyverno policies parameters	`object`	`{}`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.allow_existing_violations`	Validate already existing resources	`bool`	`true`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.custom_policies`	Additional custom policies to include	`any`	`[]`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.include_other_policies`	Additional policies to include from `other` policy category	`list(string)`	`[]`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.include_restricted_policies`	Additional policies to include from `restricted` policy category	`list(string)`	`[]`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.policy_exclude`	Exclude resources from individual policies	`any`	`{}`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.policy_kind`	Policy kind, set to `Policy` if you need namespaced policies and not cluster policies. Possible values are: `ClusterPolicy` and `ValidatingPolicy`	`string`	`ClusterPolicy`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.security_policies`	Policies to include when `podSecurityStandard` is custom	`list(string)`	`[]`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.security_severity`	Pod security standard severity. Possible values are: `low`, `medium`, `high`	`string`	`medium`	no	no
`kyverno_pod_policies.security_standard`	Pod security standard profile. Possible values are: `baseline`, `restricted`, `privileged`, and `custom`	`string`	`baseline`	no	no
`name_prefix`	Name prefix for Kyverno resources. Not used if unset	`string`		no	no
`node_selector`	Node selector for Kyverno components	`map(string)`	`{}`	no	no