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Inspektor Gadget demo: the "tcpconnect" gadget

The tcpconnect gadget traces TCP connect calls. This will help us to define a restrictive policy for outgoing connections.

Before we start a demo pod that connects to a public HTTP server, we already begin to trace the outgoing connections of our future pod (don't terminate it with Ctrl-C for now).

$ kubectl gadget tcpconnect --podname mypod

When we run the pod in a new terminal, we see the output ok since the public HTTP server was reached.

$ kubectl run --restart=Never -ti --image=busybox mypod -- sh -c 'wget -q -O /dev/null -T 3 http://1.1.1.1 && echo ok || echo failed'
ok

In our Inspektor Gadget terminal we can now see the logged connection:

$ kubectl gadget tcpconnect --podname mypod  # (still running in old terminal)
PID    COMM         IP SADDR            DADDR            DPORT
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          80
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          443

(If the pod was started as part of a deployment, the name of the pod is not know in advance since random characters will be added as suffix. In that case, it is still possible to trace the connections. We would just use kubectl gadget tcpconnect --selector key=value to filter the pods by labels instead of names.)

There was a HTTP redirect to HTTPS, so we need to allow both ports for our pod. Don't terminate it yet, we will have another look later.

Since we now know which network accesses our pod does, we can define and apply a very restrictive network policy:

$ cat Documentation/examples/network-policy.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: restrictive-network-policy
  namespace: default
spec:
  podSelector:
    matchLabels:
      run: mypod
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress
  - Egress
  ingress:
  - from:
    - ipBlock:
        cidr: 1.1.1.1/32
  egress:
  - to:
    - ipBlock:
        cidr: 1.1.1.1/32
    ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 443

$ kubectl apply -f Documentation/examples/network-policy.yaml
networkpolicy.networking.k8s.io/restrictive-network-policy created

Let's test if the pod still works as expected:

$ kubectl delete pod mypod
$ kubectl run --restart=Never -ti --image=busybox mypod -- sh -c 'wget -q -O /dev/null -T 3 http://1.1.1.1 && echo ok || echo failed'
ok

Switching to the Inspektor Gadget terminal, we see the same connections again (but now with a new PID since it's a new pod):

$ kubectl gadget tcpconnect --podname mypod  # (still running in old terminal)
PID    COMM         IP SADDR            DADDR            DPORT
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          80  # (previous output)
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          443 # (previous output)
16547               wget         4  10.2.232.51      1.1.1.1          80
16547               wget         4  10.2.232.51      1.1.1.1          443

But what if the pod would connect to other IP addresses which we disallowed? Let's modify our pod to connect to a different address to verify that the connection fails.

$ kubectl delete pod mypod
$ kubectl run --restart=Never -ti --image=busybox mypod -- sh -c 'wget -q -O /dev/null -T 3 http://1.0.0.1 && echo ok || echo failed'
wget: download timed out
failed

Indeed the network policy was applied and we can also see in Inspektor Gadget which connection the pod wanted to make in the last line. Since connecting to port 80 failed there is no redirect visible to port 443:

$ kubectl gadget tcpconnect --podname mypod  # (still running in old terminal)
PID    COMM         IP SADDR            DADDR            DPORT
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          80  # (previous output)
9386                wget         4  10.2.232.47      1.1.1.1          443 # (previous output)
16547               wget         4  10.2.232.51      1.1.1.1          80  # (previous output)
16547               wget         4  10.2.232.51      1.1.1.1          443 # (previous output)
12418               wget         4  10.2.232.50      1.0.0.1          80

We created a tailored network policy for our (original) demo pod by observing its connection behavior :) Finally, we should delete the demo pod and network policy again:

$ kubectl delete pod mypod
pod "mypod" deleted
$ kubectl delete -f Documentation/examples/network-policy.yaml
networkpolicy.networking.k8s.io "restrictive-network-policy" deleted