integrity-shield

Integrity Shield is a tool for built-in preventive integrity control for regulated cloud workloads. It provides signature-based assurance of integrity for Kubernetes resources at cluster side.

Integrity Shield works with OPA/Gatekeeper, verifies if the requests attached a signature, and blocks any unauthorized requests according to the constraint before actually persisting in etcd. Also, you can use the admission controller instead of OPA/Gatekeeper.

integrity shield server

Integrity shield server includes the main logic to verify admission requests. Integrity shield server receives a k8s resource from OPA/Gatekeeper, validates the resource which is included in the admission request based on the profile and sends the verification result to OPA/Gatekeeper. Integrity shield server uses k8s-manifest-sigstore internally to verify k8s manifest.

You can enable the protection by integrity shield with a few simple steps. Please see Usage.

gatekeeper constraint

Integrity shield works with OPA/Gatekeeper by installing ConstraintTemplate(template-manifestintegrityconstraint.yaml ). We use constraint framework of OPA/Gatekeeper to define the resources to be protected.

For example, the following snippet shows an example definition of protected resources in a namespace.

apiVersion: constraints.gatekeeper.sh/v1beta1
kind: ManifestIntegrityConstraint
metadata:
  name: deployment-constraint
spec:
  match:
    kinds:
    - kinds: ["Deployment"]
      apiGroups: ["apps"]
    namespaces:
    - "sample-ns"
  parameters:
    inScopeObjects:
    - name: sample-app
    signers:
    - [email protected]
    ignoreFields:
    - objects:
      - kind: Deployment
      fields:
      - spec.replicas

ManifestIntegrityConstraint resource includes the parameters field. In the parameters field, you can configure the profile for verifying resources such as ignoreFields for allowing some requests that match this rule, signers, and so on.

admission controller

This is an admission controller for verifying k8s manifest with sigstore signing. You can use this admission controller instead of OPA/Gatekeeper. In this case, you can decide which resources to be protected in the custom resource called ManifestIntegrityProfile instead of OPA/Gatekeeper constraint.

The following snippet is an example of ManifestIntegrityProfile.

apiVersion: apis.integrityshield.io/v1alpha1
kind: ManifestIntegrityProfile
metadata:
  name: profile-configmap
spec:
  match:
    kinds:
    - kinds:
      - ConfigMap
    namespaces:
    - sample-ns
  parameters:
    ignoreFields:
    - fields:
      - data.comment
      objects:
      - kind: ConfigMap
    signers:
    - [email protected]

You can set up the admission controller with a few simple steps. Please see admission controller.