Gatekeeper Policy Manager is a simple read-only web UI for viewing OPA Gatekeeper policies' status in a Kubernetes Cluster.
The target Kubernetes Cluster can be the same where GPM is running or some other remote cluster(s) using a kubeconfig
file. You can also run GPM locally in a client machine and connect to a remote cluster.
GPM can display all the defined Constraint Templates with their rego code, all the Gatekeeper Configuration CRDs, and all the Constraints with their current status, violations, enforcement action, matches definitions, etc.
You can see some screenshots below.
You'll need OPA Gatekeeper running in your cluster and at least some constraint templates and constraints defined to take advantage of this tool.
ℹ You can easily deploy Gatekeeper to your cluster using the (also open source) Kubernetes Fury OPA module.
To deploy Gatekeeper Policy Manager to your cluster, apply the provided kustomization
file running the following command:
kubectl apply -k .
By default, this will create a deployment and a service both with the name gatekeper-policy-manager
in the gatekeeper-system
namespace. We invite you to take a look into the kustomization.yaml
file to do further configuration.
The app can be run as a POD in a Kubernetes cluster or locally with a
kubeconfig
file. It will try its best to autodetect the correct configuration.
Once you've deployed the application, if you haven't set up an ingress, you can access the web-UI using port-forward:
kubectl -n gatekeeper-system port-forward svc/gatekeeper-policy-manager 8080:80
Then access it with your browser on: http://127.0.0.1:8080
It is also possible to deploy GPM using the provided Helm Chart.
First create a values file, for example my-values.yaml
, with your custom values for the release. See the chart's readme and the default values.yaml for more information.
Then, execute:
helm repo add gpm https://sighupio.github.io/gatekeeper-policy-manager
helm upgrade --install --namespace gatekeeper-system --set image.tag=v1.0.13 --values my-values.yaml gatekeeper-policy-manager gpm/gatekeeper-policy-manager
don't forget to replace
my-values.yaml
with the path to your values file.
GPM can also be run locally using docker and a kubeconfig
, assuming that the kubeconfig
file you want to use is located at ~/.kube/config
the command to run GPM locally would be:
docker run -v ~/.kube/config:/home/gpm/.kube/config -p 8080:8080 quay.io/sighup/gatekeeper-policy-manager:v1.0.13
Then access it with your browser on: http://127.0.0.1:8080
You can also run the flask app directly, see the development section for further information.
GPM is a stateless application, but it can be configured using environment variables. The possible configurations are:
Environment Variable Name | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
GPM_SECRET_KEY |
The secret key used to generate tokens. Change this value in production. | g8k1p3rp0l1c7m4n4g3r |
KUBECONFIG |
Path to a kubeconfig file, if provided while running inside a cluster this configuration file will be used instead of the cluster's API. | |
GPM_LOG_LEVEL |
Log level (see python logging docs for available levels) | INFO |
GPM_AUTH_ENABLED |
Enable Authentication current options: "Anonymous", "OIDC" | Anonymous |
GPM_PREFERRED_URL_SCHEME |
URL scheme to be used while generating links. | http |
GPM_OIDC_REDIRECT_DOMAIN |
The domain where GPM is being running. This is where the client will be redirected after authenticating | |
GPM_OIDC_CLIENT_ID |
The Client ID used to authenticate against the OIDC Provider | |
GPM_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET |
The Client Secret used to authenticate against the OIDC Provider (optional) | |
GPM_OIDC_ISSUER |
OIDC Issuer hostname (required if OIDC Auth is enabled) | |
GPM_OIDC_AUTHORIZATION_ENDPOINT |
OIDC Authorization Endpoint (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) | |
GPM_OIDC_JWKS_URI |
OIDC JWKS URI (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) | |
GPM_OIDC_TOKEN_ENDPOINT |
OIDC TOKEN Endpoint (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) | |
GPM_OIDC_INTROSPECTION_ENDPOINT |
OIDC Introspection Endpoint (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) | |
GPM_OIDC_USERINFO_ENDPOINT |
OIDC Userinfo Endpoint (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) | |
GPM_OIDC_END_SESSION_ENDPOINT |
OIDC End Session Endpoint (optional, setting this parameter disables the discovery of the rest of the provider configuration, set all the other values also if setting this one) |
⚠️ Please notice that OIDC Authentication is in beta state. It has been tested to work with Keycloak as a provider.These environment variables are already provided and ready to be set in the
manifests/enable-oidc.yaml
file.
Since v1.0.13
GPM has basic multi-cluster support when using a kubeconfig
with more than one context. GPM will let you chose the context right from the UI.
If you want to run GPM in a cluster but with multi-cluster support, it's as easy as mounting a kubeconfig
file in GPM's pod(s) with the cluster access configuration and set the environment variable KUBECONFIG
with the path to the mounted kubeconfig
file. Or you can simply mount it in /home/gpm/.kube/config
and GPM will detect it automatically.
Please remember that the user for the clusters should have the right permissions. You can use the
manifests/rabc.yaml
file as reference.Also note that the cluster where GPM is running should be able to reach the other clusters.
When you run GPM locally, you are already using a kubeconfig
file to connect to the clusters, now you should see all your defined contexts and you can switch between them easily from the UI.
If you want to use a Kubeconfig with IAM Authentication, you'll need to customize GPM's container image because the IAM authentication uses external AWS binaries that are not included by default in the image.
You can customize the container image with a Dockerfile
like the following:
FROM curlimages/curl:7.81.0 as downloader
RUN curl https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/releases/download/v0.5.5/aws-iam-authenticator_0.5.5_linux_amd64 --output /tmp/aws-iam-authenticator
RUN chmod +x /tmp/aws-iam-authenticator
FROM quay.io/sighup/gatekeeper-policy-manager:v1.0.13
COPY --from=downloader --chown=root:root /tmp/aws-iam-authenticator /usr/local/bin/
You may need to add also the aws
CLI, you can use the same approach as before.
Make sure that your kubeconfig
has the apiVersion
set as client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1
You can read more in this issue.
GPM is written in Python using the Flask framework for the backend and React with Elastic UI and the Fury theme for the frontend.
To develop GPM, you'll need to create a Python 3 virtual environment, install all the dependencies specified in the provided requirements.txt
, build the react frontend and you are good to start hacking.
The following commands should get you up and running:
# Build frontend and copy over to static folder
$ pushd app/web-client
$ yarn install && yarn build
$ cp -r build/* ../static-content/
$ popd
# Create a virtualenv
$ python3 -m venv env
# Activate it
$ source ./env/bin/activate
# Install all the dependencies
$ pip install -r app/requirements.txt
# Run the development server
$ FLASK_APP=app/app.py flask run
Access to a Kubernetes cluster with OPA Gatekeeper deployed is recommended to debug the application.
You'll need an OIDC provider to test the OIDC authentication. You can use our fury-kubernetes-keycloak module.
The following is a wishlist of features that we would like to add to GPM (in no particular order):
- List the constraints that are currently using a
ConstraintTemplate
- Polished OIDC authentication
- LDAP authentication
- Better syntax highlighting for the rego code snippets
- Root-less docker image
- Multi-cluster view
- Minimal write capabilities?
- Rewrite app in Golang?
Please, let us know if you are using GPM and what features would you like to have by creating an issue here on GitHub 💪🏻