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Configuring multitenant mode with network policy

As a cluster administrator, you can configure your network policies to provide multitenant network isolation.

Configuring multitenant isolation by using network policy

You can configure your project to isolate it from pods and services in other project namespaces.

Prerequisites

  • Your cluster is using a default CNI network provider that supports NetworkPolicy objects, such as the OpenShift SDN network provider with mode: NetworkPolicy set. This mode is the default for OpenShift SDN.

  • You installed the OpenShift CLI (oc).

  • You are logged in to the cluster with a user with cluster-admin privileges.

Procedure

  1. Create the following NetworkPolicy objects:

    1. A policy named allow-from-openshift-ingress:

      $ cat << EOF| oc create -f -
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: allow-from-openshift-ingress
spec:
  ingress:
  - from:
    - namespaceSelector:
        matchLabels:
          network.openshift.io/policy-group: ingress
  podSelector: {}
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress
EOF

    2. A policy named allow-from-openshift-monitoring:

      $ cat << EOF| oc create -f -
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: allow-from-openshift-monitoring
spec:
  ingress:
  - from:
    - namespaceSelector:
        matchLabels:
          network.openshift.io/policy-group: monitoring
  podSelector: {}
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress
EOF

    3. A policy named allow-same-namespace:

      $ cat << EOF| oc create -f -
kind: NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: allow-same-namespace
spec:
  podSelector:
  ingress:
  - from:
    - podSelector: {}
EOF

  2. If the default Ingress Controller configuration has the spec.endpointPublishingStrategy: HostNetwork value set, you must apply a label to the default OpenShift Container Platform namespace to allow network traffic between the Ingress Controller and the project:

    1. Determine if your default Ingress Controller uses the HostNetwork endpoint publishing strategy:

      $ oc get --namespace openshift-ingress-operator ingresscontrollers/default \
  --output jsonpath='{.status.endpointPublishingStrategy.type}'

    2. If the previous command reports the endpoint publishing strategy as HostNetwork, set a label on the default namespace:

      $ oc label namespace default 'network.openshift.io/policy-group=ingress'

  3. Confirm that the NetworkPolicy object exists in your current project by running the following command:

    $ oc get networkpolicy <policy-name> -o yaml

    In the following example, the allow-from-openshift-ingress NetworkPolicy object is displayed:

    $ oc get -n project1 networkpolicy allow-from-openshift-ingress -o yaml
    Example output
    apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: allow-from-openshift-ingress
  namespace: project1
spec:
  ingress:
  - from:
    - namespaceSelector:
        matchLabels:
          network.openshift.io/policy-group: ingress
  podSelector: {}
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress

Next steps