Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri@...>
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc@...>
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
From: Onsi Fakhouri Reply-To: "Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." Date: Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 To: cf-dev Subject: [cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in privileged containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in unprivileged containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers. If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote: Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way? Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri@...>
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri@...>
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote: Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise? Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote: We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com
wrote: Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too. Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ? From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see // If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool < http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"` I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ? BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ? Thanks, Guillaume.
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote: +1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
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On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see // If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote: +1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise? Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote: Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote: Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
From: Onsi Fakhouri Reply-To: "Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." Date: Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 To: cf-dev Subject: [cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in privileged containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in unprivileged containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers. If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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To that I would add that privileged: true is the behavior of the existing platform and warden. Sticking with privileged: true essentially opts you out off gardens new security features.
So running privileged containers isn't a step backwards. It's simply a choice not to take a step forwards.
Onsi
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On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Julian Friedman <julz.friedman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see // If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote: +1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise? Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote: Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran <vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote: Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
From: Onsi Fakhouri Reply-To: "Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." Date: Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 To: cf-dev Subject: [cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in privileged containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in unprivileged containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers. If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Thanks Julian and Onsi for the additional details. Much clearer now.
Guillaume.
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: To that I would add that privileged: true is the behavior of the existing platform and warden. Sticking with privileged: true essentially opts you out off gardens new security features.
So running privileged containers isn't a step backwards. It's simply a choice not to take a step forwards.
Onsi
On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Julian Friedman <julz.friedman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see
// If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool <http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Good description. Count us as one who does not use FUSE and would very much like to run docker images in privileged mode. Perhaps it would be appropriate to force privileged mode for docker apps but allow running non privileged for non docker applications until FUSE can be removed? Mike On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Julian Friedman <julz.friedman(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see
// If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool <http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri@...>
Hey Mike,
Just to be clear, I think you have a (consistent) sign error throughout your e-mail?
Cloud Controller's current behavior is to request *un*privileged (i.e. "more secure") containers for Docker images and privileged (i.e. "less secure") containers for buildpack apps.
Our proposal is to make the privileged flag for buildpack apps configurable (and it sounds like folks are leaning towards the per-space approach).
I think we want to continue to enforce *un*privileged containers for docker images as the attack surface is substantially higher with a docker image.
Onsi
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mike Youngstrom <youngm(a)gmail.com> wrote: Good description. Count us as one who does not use FUSE and would very much like to run docker images in privileged mode.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to force privileged mode for docker apps but allow running non privileged for non docker applications until FUSE can be removed?
Mike
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Julian Friedman <julz.friedman(a)gmail.com
wrote: Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
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On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see
// If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool <http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Right. So to restate this discussion only applies to buildpack containers docker containers currently are and will continue to be run in unprivileged mode by default. Correct?
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote: Hey Mike,
Just to be clear, I think you have a (consistent) sign error throughout your e-mail?
Cloud Controller's current behavior is to request *un*privileged (i.e. "more secure") containers for Docker images and privileged (i.e. "less secure") containers for buildpack apps.
Our proposal is to make the privileged flag for buildpack apps configurable (and it sounds like folks are leaning towards the per-space approach).
I think we want to continue to enforce *un*privileged containers for docker images as the attack surface is substantially higher with a docker image.
Onsi
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mike Youngstrom <youngm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Good description. Count us as one who does not use FUSE and would very much like to run docker images in privileged mode.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to force privileged mode for docker apps but allow running non privileged for non docker applications until FUSE can be removed?
Mike
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Julian Friedman < julz.friedman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see
// If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool <http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io
wrote: Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri@...>
Yes, and perhaps I wasn't very clear about that. Thanks for teasing that out Mike.
Onsi
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Mike Youngstrom <youngm(a)gmail.com> wrote: Right. So to restate this discussion only applies to buildpack containers docker containers currently are and will continue to be run in unprivileged mode by default. Correct?
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey Mike,
Just to be clear, I think you have a (consistent) sign error throughout your e-mail?
Cloud Controller's current behavior is to request *un*privileged (i.e. "more secure") containers for Docker images and privileged (i.e. "less secure") containers for buildpack apps.
Our proposal is to make the privileged flag for buildpack apps configurable (and it sounds like folks are leaning towards the per-space approach).
I think we want to continue to enforce *un*privileged containers for docker images as the attack surface is substantially higher with a docker image.
Onsi
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mike Youngstrom <youngm(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Good description. Count us as one who does not use FUSE and would very much like to run docker images in privileged mode.
Perhaps it would be appropriate to force privileged mode for docker apps but allow running non privileged for non docker applications until FUSE can be removed?
Mike
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Julian Friedman < julz.friedman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume, I'd put it like this: running containers with 'privileged: false' makes them safe /even if/ a user gets root. With a docker image this is essential, because getting root is trivial. With a buildpack image this is less essential, but it means /even if/ a root escalation exploit is found (these do exist, there was an escalation via overlayfs patched a while ago) you're still safe. 'Privileged: false' turns on user namespacing and turns off various capabilities: it's what the Garden team recommend most containers use. 'Privileged: true' relies on the security of your rootfs and users never getting root; if your use case requires it you'll of course need to make a judgement, but you're trading off quite a lot of security in my opinion.
Sent from my iPhone
On 30 Jul 2015, at 17:12, Guillaume Berche <bercheg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Onsi. Being able to use FUSE is quite important to us too.
Can you clarify the security risk associated with running a privileged container (as a workaround for the lack of fuse support within user namespace), when pushing an app that goes through the buildpack staging process (hence running as vcap user) ?
From http://godoc.org/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/garden I see
// If Privileged is true the container does not have a user namespace and the root user in the container // is the same as the root user in the host. Otherwise, the container has a user namespace and the root // user in the container is mapped to a non-root user in the host. Defaults to false. Privileged bool <http://godoc.org/builtin#bool> `json:"privileged,omitempty"`
I understand the risk is specific to running a docker image built using the docker file USER directive (specially root): then the container will run as the host root ?
BTW, is the ability to run as a different user in staging and running currently considered as discussed into https://groups.google.com/a/cloudfoundry.org/d/msg/vcap-dev/ZlC-2DVOSHo/uRrF6Io52mEJ ?
Thanks,
Guillaume.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Jack Cai <greensight(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for space-level configuration.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Agreed. I'd argue this this probably not be a 'per-app' thing, as I too amy way of the knobs that developers like to turn. I think a per space level is just the right level.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Onsi Fakhouri <ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io
wrote: That's still very much open for discussion. Obviously, someone with administrative privileges should be in charge of this particular piece of configuration.
Also making this a runtime config (e.g. feature flag) as opposed to a deploy-time config (e.g. part of the CC config written out by BOSH) would make the different behaviors more testable.
Thoughts? Preferences? We're wary of adding too many knobs to the platform and exposing them all the way down to app developers increases the cognitive load for folks using the platform. Enabling/disabling it on a per-installation level, and - maybe - a per-space level, might be a decent compromise?
Onsi
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Matt Cowger <matt(a)cowger.us> wrote:
Once - configurable on a per-app, per space, or per deployment basis?
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Onsi Fakhouri < ofakhouri(a)pivotal.io> wrote:
Hey all,
Based on the feedback we got and the relatively low cost to maintain privileged support we'd like to propose making running privileged containers on the platform configurable - we will recommend this be turned off when running untrusted workloads and it will likely default to off. We have longer term plans to support mounting persistent volumes in Diego at which point support for mounting FUSE in unprivileged containers can become a reality.
Thoughts?
Onsi
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmikusa(a)pivotal.io
wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Lerenc, Vedran < vedran.lerenc(a)sap.com> wrote:
Hi Onsi,
Ø Thoughts? Concerns?
Well, that’s bad news.
We, and I assume many others as well (like the folks from Stackato who do it in the public), have used SSHFS + FUSE to implement a persistent file system for old-fashioned apps/apps that are not Cloud-native. I don’t want to fight an ideological battle here, it’s just that these apps do still exist (in majority) and a file system service is an important service/feature for them.
So if you remove FUSE (which we thought is not going away/was added to stay), it’s pretty bad for us/many apps.
Best regards, Vedran
+1 - It would be sad to see FUSE support go away. It's been very helpful for running apps that depend on a persistent FS, like Wordpress. Perhaps this use case of mounting a remote SSHFS could be supported in some other way?
Dan
*From: *Onsi Fakhouri *Reply-To: *"Discussions about Cloud Foundry projects and the system overall." *Date: *Saturday 11 July 2015 01:10 *To: *cf-dev *Subject: *[cf-dev] Removing FUSE support from CF
Hey CF-Dev,
The Garden team has been hard at work substantially improving Garden-Linux's security features. Garden-Linux now employs user namespaces and drops capabilities when creating unprivileged containers - we're excited to bring both of these features to the platform!
Diego currently runs applications in *privileged* containers. These lack the security features outlined above and we are planning on switching to launch all CF applications in *unprivileged* containers.
Unfortunately, it has proved difficult to support mounting FUSE filesystems from within unprivileged containers. We believe the security benefits outweigh the features that FUSE give us and* are planning on removing support for FUSE in favor of better securing our containers.* If/when FUSE support in unprivileged containers becomes possible we may add it back to the platform.
Thoughts? Concerns?
Thanks!
Onsi
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