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Add Pod Security Standards to User Namespaces KEP
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This KEP update outlines the required changes for Pod Security Standards
in relation to the User Namespaces support. Planned graduation to beta
is v1.28, which is now reflected in `kep.yaml` as well.

Updating the PRR for it will follow in another PR.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Grunert <[email protected]>
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50 changes: 48 additions & 2 deletions keps/sig-node/127-user-namespaces/README.md
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- [Example without idmap mounts](#example-without-idmap-mounts)
- [Example with idmap mounts](#example-with-idmap-mounts)
- [Regarding the previous implementation for volumes](#regarding-the-previous-implementation-for-volumes)
- [Pod Security Standards (PSS) integration](#pod-security-standards-pss-integration)
- [Unresolved](#unresolved)
- [Test Plan](#test-plan)
- [Prerequisite testing updates](#prerequisite-testing-updates)
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During alpha, to make sure we don't exhaust the host UID namespace, we will
limit the number of pods using user namespaces to `min(maxPods, 1024)`. This
leaves us plenty of host UID space free and this limits is probably never hit in
practice. See UNRESOLVED for more some UNRESOLVED info we still have on this.
practice. See the [Unresolved section](#unresolved) for more details on this.

### Handling of stateless volumes

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[kubeletVolumeHost-interface]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/36450ee422d57d53a3edaf960f86b356578fe996/pkg/volume/plugins.go#L322

### Pod Security Standards (PSS) integration

[Pod Security Standards](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/security/pod-security-standards)
define three different policies to broadly cover the whole security spectrum of
Kubernetes, while the User Namespaces feature should integrate into them. This
will happen only if the feature is graduated to GA, which _may_ result in
changing the `Restricted` profile to disallow host user namespaces for stateless
Pods.

The Pod Security will relax in a controlled way for pods which enable user
namespaces. This behavior can be controlled by an API Server Feature Gate, which
allows an early opt-in for end users. The overall burden to ensure that all
nodes will honor user namespaces is on the cluster admin, though. The relaxation
in detail means, that if user namespaces are enabled, then the following fields
won't be restricted any more because they always have to refer to the user
inside the container:

- `spec.securityContext.runAsNonRoot`
- `spec.containers[*].securityContext.runAsNonRoot`
- `spec.initContainers[*].securityContext.runAsNonRoot`
- `spec.ephemeralContainers[*].securityContext.runAsNonRoot`
- `spec.securityContext.runAsUser`
- `spec.containers[*].securityContext.runAsUser`
- `spec.initContainers[*].securityContext.runAsUser`
- `spec.ephemeralContainers[*].securityContext.runAsUser`
- `spec.containers[*].securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation`
- `spec.initContainers[*].securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation`
- `spec.ephemeralContainers[*].securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation`
- `spec.containers[*].securityContext.capabilities.drop`
- `spec.initContainers[*].securityContext.capabilities.drop`
- `spec.ephemeralContainers[*].securityContext.capabilities.drop`
- `spec.containers[*].securityContext.capabilities.add`
- `spec.initContainers[*].securityContext.capabilities.add`
- `spec.ephemeralContainers[*].securityContext.capabilities.add`

A serial test will be added to validate the functionality with the enabled
feature gate.

### Unresolved

Here is a list of considerations raised in PRs discussion that hasn't yet
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### Graduation Criteria

##### Alpha

- Support with idmap mounts
- Gather and address feedback from the community
- Add API Server feature flag to integrate into [Pod Security Standards (PSS)](#pod-security-standards-pss-integration)
- Changing restrictions on the what volumes will be allowed

##### Beta

- Make plans on whether, when, and how to enable by default

###### Open Questions

- Should we reconsider making the mappings smaller by default?
- Should we allow any way for users to for "more" IDs mapped? If yes, how many more and how?
- Should we allow the user to ask for specific mappings?
- Get review from VM container runtimes maintainers
- Gather and address feedback from the community

##### GA

- Gather and address feedback from the community
- Fully integrate into [Pod Security Standards (PSS)](#pod-security-standards-pss-integration)

### Upgrade / Downgrade Strategy

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authors:
- "@rata"
- "@giuseppe"
- "@saschagrunert"
owning-sig: sig-node
participating-sigs: []
status: implementable
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- "@derekwaynecarr"

stage: alpha
latest-milestone: "v1.27"
latest-milestone: "v1.28"
milestone:
alpha: "v1.25"

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