Network Segmentation
In Kubernetes, the network policy resource is a set of network traffic rules that are applied to a group of pods in a Kubernetes cluster. The network policy specifies how a pod is allowed to communicate with others. Network policy controllers (running as pods in the Kubernetes cluster) convert the requirements and restrictions of the network policies that are retrieved from the Kubernetes API into the network infrastructure.
KubeArmor has visibility into the network connections made into or from the pods. It has visibility across socket(), bind(), connect(), accept() calls. KubeArmor along with the discovery-engine could now auto-generate k8s network policy which are enforceable using most of the k8s CNIs (Container Network Interface). Note that the discovered policies use k8s abstractions for identifying services, deployments, and pods such as k8s labels, namespaces.
This release allows kubearmor and discovery-engine to do automatic network microsegmentation by detecting the network connections and creating appropriate network policies based on it. These auto-generated network policies are enforceable using any CNI that supports k8s network policy namely, Cilium, Calico, AWS VPC CNI, Weave.

Pre-requisites:
- 1.Install KubeArmor
curl -sfL http://get.kubearmor.io/ | sudo sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin && karmor install
- 2.
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubearmor/discovery-engine/dev/deployments/k8s/deployment.yaml
- 3.Next you install the workload. If the workload is already installed, then the behavior will be shown based on the new system events only.
- 4.Get the application summary
karmor discover -n NAMESPACE
❯ karmor discover -n dvwa -f yaml -p NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: autopol-ingress-igpxzbfksonhbya
namespace: dvwa
spec:
ingress:
- from:
- podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: dvwa-web
tier: frontend
ports:
- port: 3306
protocol: TCP
podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: dvwa-mysql
tier: backend
policyTypes:
- Ingress
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
name: autopol-egress-wjvlkuprwuwgera
namespace: dvwa
spec:
egress:
- ports:
- protocol: UDP
- ports:
- port: 3306
protocol: TCP
to:
- podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: dvwa-mysql
tier: backend
podSelector:
matchLabels:
app: dvwa-web
tier: frontend
policyTypes:
- Egress
---
Highlights of network segmentation:
- Ability to generate k8s network policies without depending on the CNI.
- No inserting of iptables rules required at the host level. System call information is used to discover the policies.
- Generated k8s network policies are enforceable using any CNI that supports k8s network policies.
Yes. Open source Calico does not provide visibility into network flows, however, KubeArmor leverages system call information to derive generic network policies that can be applied using open source Calico CNI.
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