container.training/docs/leastprivilege.md

# Least privilege model

- All the important data is stored in the "Raft log"

- Managers nodes have read/write access to this data

- Workers nodes have no access to this data

- Workers only receive the minimum amount of data that they need:

  - which services to run
  - network configuration information for these services
  - credentials for these services

- Compromising a worker node does not give access to the full cluster

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## What can I do if I compromise a worker node?

- I can enter the containers running on that node

- I can access the configuration and credentials used by these containers

- I can inspect the network traffic of these containers

- I cannot inspect or disrupt the network traffic of other containers

  (network information is provided by manager nodes; ARP spoofing is not possible)

- I cannot infer the topology of the cluster and its number of nodes

- I can only learn the IP addresses of the manager nodes

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## Guidelines for workload isolation leveraging least privilege model

- Define security levels

- Define security zones

- Put managers in the highest security zone

- Enforce workloads of a given security level to run in a given zone

- Enforcement can be done with [Authorization Plugins](https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_authorization/)

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## Learning more about container security

.blackbelt[[Securing Containers, One Patch At A Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSs1RHwcqo&list=PLkA60AVN3hh-biQ6SCtBJ-WVTyBmmYho8&index=4) by Michael Crosby (DC17US)]

.blackbelt[Container-relevant Upstream Kernel Developments by Tycho Andersen (Tuesday 14:55)]

.blackbelt[What Have Syscalls Done for you Lately? by Liz Rice (Tuesday 11:45)]