BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy (BANP) is a cluster-scoped custom resource definition (CRD). As a Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS administrator, you can use BANP to setup and enforce optional baseline network policy rules that are overridable by users using NetworkPolicy objects if need be. Rule actions for BANP are allow or deny.
The BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy resource is a cluster singleton object that can be used as a guardrail policy incase a passed traffic policy does not match any NetworkPolicy objects in the cluster. A BANP can also be used as a default security model that provides guardrails that intra-cluster traffic is blocked by default and a user will need to use NetworkPolicy objects to allow known traffic. You must use default as the name when creating a BANP resource.
A BANP allows administrators to specify:
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A subject that consists of a set of namespaces or namespace.
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A list of ingress rules to be applied for all ingress traffic towards the subject.
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A list of egress rules to be applied for all egress traffic from the subject.
BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy example
Example YAML file for BANP
apiVersion: policy.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: default (1)
spec:
subject:
namespaces:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: example.name (2)
ingress: (3)
- name: "deny-all-ingress-from-tenant-1" (4)
action: "Deny"
from:
- pods:
namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
custom-banp: tenant-1 (5)
podSelector:
matchLabels:
custom-banp: tenant-1 (6)
egress:
- name: "allow-all-egress-to-tenant-1"
action: "Allow"
to:
- pods:
namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
custom-banp: tenant-1
podSelector:
matchLabels:
custom-banp: tenant-1
| 1 |
The policy name must be default because BANP is a singleton object. |
| 2 |
Specify the namespace to apply the ANP to. |
| 3 |
BANP have both ingress and egress rules. BANP rules for spec.ingress and spec.egress fields accepts values of Deny and Allow for the action field. |
| 4 |
Specify a name for the ingress.name |
| 5 |
Specify the namespaces to select the pods from to apply the BANP resource. |
| 6 |
Specify podSelector.matchLabels name of the pods to apply the BANP resource. |
BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy Deny example
The following BANP singleton ensures that the administrator has set up a default deny policy for all ingress monitoring traffic coming into the tenants at internal security level. When combined with the "AdminNetworkPolicy Pass example", this deny policy acts as a guardrail policy for all ingress traffic that is passed by the ANP pass-monitoring policy.
Example YAML file for a guardrail Deny rule
apiVersion: policy.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: default
spec:
subject:
namespaces:
matchLabels:
security: internal
ingress:
- name: "deny-ingress-from-monitoring"
action: "Deny"
from:
- namespaces:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: monitoring
# ...
You can use an AdminNetworkPolicy resource with a Pass value for the action field in conjunction with the BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy resource to create a multi-tenant policy. This multi-tenant policy allows one tenant to collect monitoring data on their application while simultaneously not collecting data from a second tenant.
As an administrator, if you apply both the "AdminNetworkPolicy Pass action example" and the "BaselineAdminNetwork Policy Deny example", tenants are then left with the ability to choose to create a NetworkPolicy resource that will be evaluated before the BANP.
For example, Tenant 1 can set up the following NetworkPolicy resource to monitor ingress traffic:
Example NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: allow-monitoring
namespace: tenant 1
spec:
podSelector:
policyTypes:
- Ingress
ingress:
- from:
- namespaceSelector:
matchLabels:
kubernetes.io/metadata.name: monitoring
# ...
In this scenario, Tenant 1’s policy would be evaluated after the "AdminNetworkPolicy Pass action example" and before the "BaselineAdminNetwork Policy Deny example", which denies all ingress monitoring traffic coming into tenants with security level internal. With Tenant 1’s NetworkPolicy object in place, they will be able to collect data on their application. Tenant 2, however, who does not have any NetworkPolicy objects in place, will not be able to collect data. As an administrator, you have not by default monitored internal tenants, but instead, you created a BANP that allows tenants to use NetworkPolicy objects to override the default behavior of your BANP.
