Policy Collection

A collection of policy examples for Open Cluster Management.

Repository structure

This repository hosts policies for Open Cluster Management. You can deploy these policies using Open Cluster Management which includes a policy framework that is available as an addon. Policies are organized in two ways:

By support expectations which are detailed below.
By NIST Special Publication 800-53.

The following folders are used to separate policies by the support expectations:

stable -- Policies in the stable folder are contributions that are being supported by the Open Cluster Management Policy SIG.
3rd-party -- Policies in the 3rd-party folder are contributions that are being supported, but not by the Open Cluster Management Policy SIG. See the details of the policy to understand the support being provided.
community -- Policies in the community folder are contributed from the open source community. Contributions should start in the community.

In addition to policy contributions, there is the option to contribute groups of policies as a set. This is known as PolicySets and these contributions are made in directories organized as PolicyGenerator projects. The folder containing these contributions is located here: PolicySet projects.

Using GitOps to deploy policies to a cluster

Fork this repository and use the forked version as the target to run the sync against. This is to avoid unintended changes to be applied to your cluster automatically. To get latest policies from the policy-collection repository, you can pull the latest changes from policy-collection to your own repository through a pull request. Any further changes to your repository are automatically be applied to your cluster.

Make sure you have kubectl installed and that you are logged into your hub cluster in terminal.

Run kubectl create ns policies to create a "policies" ns on hub. If you prefer to call the namespace something else, you can run kubectl create ns <custom ns> instead.

From within this directory in terminal, run cd deploy to access the deployment directory, then run bash ./deploy.sh -u <url> -p <path> -n <namespace>. (Details on all of the parameters for this command can be viewed in its README.) This script assumes you have enabled Application lifecycle management as an addon in your Open Cluster Management installation. See Application lifecycle management for details on installing the Application addon.

The policies are applied to all managed clusters that are available, and have the environment set to dev. Specifically, an available managed cluster has the status parameter set to true by the system, for the ManagedClusterConditionAvailable condition. If policies need to be applied to another set of clusters, update the PlacementRule.spec.clusterSelector.matchExpressions section in the policies.

Note: As new clusters are added that fit the criteria previously mentioned, the policies are applied automatically.

Subscription Administrator

In new versions of Open Cluster Management you must be a subscription administrator in order to deploy policies using a subscription. In these cases the subscription is still successfully created, but policy resources are not distributed as expected. You can view the status of the subscription to see the subscription errors. If the subscription administrator role is required, a message similar to the following one appears for any resource that is not created:

        demo-stable-policies-chan-Policy-policy-cert-ocp4:
          lastUpdateTime: "2021-10-15T20:37:59Z"
          phase: Failed
          reason: 'not deployed by a subscription admin. the resource apiVersion: policy.open-cluster-management.io/v1 kind: Policy is not deployed'

To become a subscription administrator, you must add an entry for your user to the ClusterRoleBinding named open-cluster-management:subscription-admin. A new entry may look like the following:

subjects:
  - kind: User
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    name: my-username

After updating the ClusterRoleBinding, you need to delete the subscription and deploy the subscription again.

Policy Generator

GitOps through Open Cluster Management is able to handle Kustomize files, so you can also use the Policy Generator Kustomize plugin to generate policies from Kubernetes manifests in your repository. The Policy Generator handles Kubernetes manifests as well as policy engine manifests from policy engines like Gatekeeper and Kyverno.

For additional information about the Policy Generator:

Community, discussion, contribution, and support

Check the Contributing policies document for guidelines on how to contribute to the repository.

Blogs: Read our blogs that are in the blogs folder.

Resources: View the following resources for more information on the components and mechanisms are implemented in the product governance framework.