Create system:cluster-autoscaler account & role and introduce it to C… #64503

kgolab · 2018-05-30T08:59:53Z

What this PR does / why we need it:

This PR adds cluster-autoscaler ClusterRole & binding, to be used by the Cluster Autoscaler (kubernetes/autoscaler repository).
It also updates GCE scripts to make CA use the cluster-autoscaler user account.

User account instead of Service account is chosen to be more in line with kube-scheduler.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes issue 383 from kubernetes/autoscaler.

Special notes for your reviewer:

This PR might be treated as a security fix since prior to it CA on GCE was using system:cluster-admin account, assumed due to default handling of unsecured & unauthenticated traffic over plain HTTP.

Release note:

A cluster-autoscaler ClusterRole is added to cover only the functionality required by Cluster Autoscaler and avoid abusing system:cluster-admin role.

action required: Cloud providers other than GCE might want to update their deployments or sample yaml files to reuse the role created via add-on.

aleksandra-malinowska · 2018-05-30T09:07:10Z

/ok-to-test

kgolab · 2018-05-30T13:13:38Z

/retest

liggitt · 2018-05-30T22:10:29Z

plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/rbac/bootstrappolicy/policy.go

@@ -440,6 +440,31 @@ func ClusterRoles() []rbacv1.ClusterRole {
 				rbacv1helpers.NewRule(Read...).Groups(legacyGroup).Resources("persistentvolumeclaims", "persistentvolumes").RuleOrDie(),
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			// a role for the Cluster Autoscaler
+			ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{Name: "system:cluster-autoscaler"},


where does the cluster autoscaler component live? this seems like it would be better defined in a manifest defined in https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler

At least in GCE & GKE the CA lives on master node and is started from the manifest file that resides in kubernetes/kubernetes repository and is part of this PR - please have a look at cluster-autoscaler.manifest.

since the component is deployment-specific, the permissions for the autoscaler should also be part of the deployment. for an example of what this could look like for GCE/GKE, see the permissions GCE/GKE grants to kubelets:

kubernetes/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh

Lines 2246 to 2248 in bb869d8

# prep addition kube-up specific rbac objects

setup-addon-manifests "addons" "rbac/kubelet-api-auth"

setup-addon-manifests "addons" "rbac/kubelet-cert-rotation"

kubernetes/cluster/addons/rbac/kubelet-cert-rotation/kubelet-certificate-management.yaml

Lines 1 to 62 in bb869d8

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1

kind: ClusterRoleBinding

metadata:

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap

labels:

kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile

roleRef:

apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

kind: ClusterRole

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap

subjects:

- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

kind: User

name: kubelet

---

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1

kind: ClusterRoleBinding

metadata:

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation

labels:

kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile

roleRef:

apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

kind: ClusterRole

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation

subjects:

- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

kind: Group

name: system:nodes

---

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1

kind: ClusterRole

metadata:

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap

labels:

kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile

rules:

- apiGroups:

- "certificates.k8s.io"

resources:

- certificatesigningrequests/nodeclient

verbs:

- "create"

---

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1

kind: ClusterRole

metadata:

name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation

labels:

kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile

rules:

- apiGroups:

- "certificates.k8s.io"

resources:

- certificatesigningrequests/selfnodeclient

- certificatesigningrequests/selfnodeserver

verbs:

- "create"

kgolab · 2018-06-07T09:56:37Z

I've moved the ClusterRole & ClusterRoleBinding creation to an add-on yaml, as requested by @liggitt.

I've some doubts though about the mixed life-cycle of this solution: CA is created from a manifest located in /etc/kubernetes/manifests/ directory while the role is added independently via kube-addon-manager.
This usually results in 2 (sometimes 3) extra iterations of CrashLoopBackOff compared to previous solution and delays the CA start on a freshly created cluster by about a minute.
@mwielgus, do we need to make something about it or can we live with this change in start-up behaviour?

kgolab · 2018-06-07T09:58:57Z

/assign @zmerlynn

kgolab · 2018-06-07T11:01:29Z

/test pull-kubernetes-node-e2e

kgolab · 2018-06-08T10:32:26Z

Since this change is basically a security fix for Cluster Autoscaler and is limited to GCE/GKE starting scripts, could we merge this to 1.11 still? The current implementation should not affect global Kubernetes release as far as I can see.

From the initial description:
Fixes issue 383 from kubernetes/autoscaler.

I've tested this PR by setting up GCE & GKE clusters, going through few basic scale-up and scale-down scenarios and verifying CA logs that there are no "access forbidden" messages.
The only "access forbidden" messages are logged during the initial start-up when CA tries to list the nodes before addon manager creates ClusterRole - see also previous comment.

/cc @jberkus

dims · 2018-06-08T11:29:15Z

cc @liggitt @jberkus

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T11:50:38Z

cluster/addons/rbac/cluster-autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler-rbac.yaml

+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["pods/eviction"]
+    verbs: ["create"]
+  # read-only access to cluster state, mostly around services & controllers


nit: remove "mostly around services & controllers" - there are so many objects here...

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T11:51:02Z

cluster/addons/rbac/cluster-autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler-rbac.yaml

+  - apiGroups: ["policy"]
+    resources: ["poddisruptionbudgets"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: [""]


merge with the first entry in this group - both are for the same verbs and apiGroup

Merged, thanks for noticing.

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T11:51:49Z

cluster/addons/rbac/cluster-autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler-rbac.yaml

+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["services", "replicationcontrollers"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["apps", "extensions"]


Do we really need "extensions"? Didn't we already migrated everything to "apps" api group?

No, the extensions group is very much alive :(

Well - I know that the group itself is alive and available to users.
I'm just asking if cluster-autoscaler/scheduler is still using it (I thought we migrated usages of scheduler and cluster-autoscaler to already use apps api group - the underlying resource in the end is exactly the same).

I can see code like Extensions().V1beta1().ReplicaSets() or ExtensionsV1beta1().DaemonSets in ClusterAutoscaler so I guess we're still using extensions.

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T12:10:54Z

@kgolab - please squash commit before I will approve it.

…A start-up script

kgolab · 2018-06-08T12:17:35Z

Squashed.

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T12:19:07Z

/lgtm
/approve

wojtek-t · 2018-06-08T12:24:02Z

@jberkus - given the explanation in #64503 (comment) - I think we want to have that in 1.11
Can you please approve for milestone (I think it's what we should do).

k8s-ci-robot · 2018-06-11T16:52:42Z

New changes are detected. LGTM label has been removed.

kgolab · 2018-06-11T17:00:00Z

/test pull-kubernetes-e2e-gce

kgolab · 2018-06-11T18:04:24Z

/test pull-kubernetes-node-e2e

mikedanese · 2018-06-11T18:39:46Z

cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh

@@ -2006,6 +2006,7 @@ function start-cluster-autoscaler {

    local params="${AUTOSCALER_MIG_CONFIG} ${CLOUD_CONFIG_OPT} ${AUTOSCALER_EXPANDER_CONFIG:---expander=price}"
    params+=" --kubeconfig=/etc/srv/kubernetes/cluster-autoscaler/kubeconfig"
+    sed -i -e "s@{{srv_kube_path}}@/etc/srv/kubernetes@g" "${src_file}"


There's no need to parameterize this.

OK, reverted back to hard-coded value.

kgolab · 2018-06-11T19:55:14Z

/test pull-kubernetes-node-e2e

jberkus · 2018-06-11T22:19:30Z

escalating priority so this can merge

/priority critical-urgent
/remove-priority important-soon

k8s-github-robot · 2018-06-11T22:20:11Z

[MILESTONENOTIFIER] Milestone Pull Request: Up-to-date for process

@kgolab @mikedanese @wojtek-t @zmerlynn

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k8s-github-robot · 2018-06-11T23:24:40Z

/test all [submit-queue is verifying that this PR is safe to merge]

k8s-github-robot · 2018-06-12T00:29:12Z

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wojtek-t · 2018-06-12T06:26:00Z

@kgolab - next time please squash commits before merging.

zparnold · 2018-06-13T14:55:21Z

Hello there! @kgolab I'm Zach Arnold working on Docs for the 1.11 release. This PR was identified as one needing some documentation in the https://github.com/kubernetes/website repo around your contributions (thanks by the way!) When you have some time, could you please modify/add/remove the relevant content that needs changing in our documentation repo? Thanks! Please let me or my colleague Misty know (@zparnold/@misty on K8s Slack) if you need any assistance with the documentation.

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kgolab · 2018-06-19T09:22:23Z

Hi Zach,
@zparnold , as far as I understand the documentation update has been required only for the initial version of this PR, when system-level ClusterRole has been created in bootstraping code. For that there was PR 8814.
Since then the solution has been reworked to be based on add-ons and as such does not fit to docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/

Please let me know if you meant something different or just know other place which should be updated. Thanks!

@mikedanese

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	# prep addition kube-up specific rbac objects
	setup-addon-manifests "addons" "rbac/kubelet-api-auth"
	setup-addon-manifests "addons" "rbac/kubelet-cert-rotation"

	apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
	kind: ClusterRoleBinding
	metadata:
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap
	labels:
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
	addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
	roleRef:
	apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
	kind: ClusterRole
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap
	subjects:
	- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
	kind: User
	name: kubelet
	---
	apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
	kind: ClusterRoleBinding
	metadata:
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation
	labels:
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
	addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
	roleRef:
	apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
	kind: ClusterRole
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation
	subjects:
	- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
	kind: Group
	name: system:nodes
	---
	apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
	kind: ClusterRole
	metadata:
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-bootstrap
	labels:
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
	addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
	rules:
	- apiGroups:
	- "certificates.k8s.io"
	resources:
	- certificatesigningrequests/nodeclient
	verbs:
	- "create"
	---
	apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
	kind: ClusterRole
	metadata:
	name: gce:beta:kubelet-certificate-rotation
	labels:
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
	addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
	rules:
	- apiGroups:
	- "certificates.k8s.io"
	resources:
	- certificatesigningrequests/selfnodeclient
	- certificatesigningrequests/selfnodeserver
	verbs:
	- "create"

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