KubeEdge BP Test Documents

Introduction

This wiki documents KubeEdge BP test environment set up and test results for release 4.

All test results and logs have been pushed to Akraino NEXUS:

https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/futurewei/kubeedgees/36/

Akarino Test Group Information

N/A

Overall Test Architecture

2 independent test labs have been set up:

1. A lab created exclusively within AWS
2. Akraino provided lab

They share the same high level test architecture:

Test Bed

In the AWS lab, all servers are EC2 instances:

Test Framework

Robot framework is used in BluVal.

Traffic Generator

N/A

Test API description

KubeEdge CI/CD tests

Test Procedure

1. Build for both x86 and ARM.
2. Unit tests.
3. Integration tests.
4. End to end tests.

Test Results

Pass

BluVal Tests

Lynis

Pass

Vuls

We used Ubuntu 20.04. All the packages have been updated or upgraded to latest version in the repo.

There are 4 CVEs with CVSS score > 9.0. These require upstream kernel patches, and exceptions have been requested here:

Akraino CVE Vulnerability Exception Request

Kube-Hunter

Fixed 3 vulnerabilities:

KHV002, KHV050 & CAP_NET_RAW.

No more to fix.

Conformance Test (Sonobuoy)

Sonobuoy does not apply to KubeEdge.

An exception has been granted:

Akraino BluVal Exception Request

Reason:

• Sonobuoy assumes the all nodes are within a Layer 2 network, which is the case for the standard Kubernetes environment.
• KubeEdge solves a different problem where typically the edge nodes are behind corporate firewalls. And cloud node do not have direct access to the edge nodes due to security and permission restrictions.

Test Dashboards

Single pane view of how the test score looks like for the Blue print.

Test results and logs are all pushed to Akraino NEXUS:

https://nexus.akraino.org/content/sites/logs/futurewei/kubeedgees/36/

Additional Testing

Bottlenecks/Errata 

Applied Fixes

Kube-Hunter

KHV002

https://aquasecurity.github.io/kube-hunter/kb/KHV002.html

Solution:

Change the default ClusterRole system:public-info-viewer

kubectl replace -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  annotations:
    rbac.authorization.kubernetes.io/autoupdate: "false"
  labels:
    kubernetes.io/bootstrapping: rbac-defaults
  name: system:public-info-viewer
rules:
- nonResourceURLs:
  - /healthz
  - /livez
  - /readyz
  verbs:
  - get
EOF

CAP_NET_RAW

Docker runtime enables Linux "NET_RAW" capability by default. Docker daemon does not have an option to disable "NET_RAW":

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/#daemon-configuration-file

So we have to turn to K8s provided "PodSecurityPolicy" for help.

Solution:

Use PodSecurityPolicy

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy/

High level steps:

1. Create a PodSecurityPolicy to drop the Linux capability "NET_RAW".
2. Create an RBAC role to allow use of the PodSecurityPolicy created in step 1.
3. Bind the RBAC role to serviceaccount "default".