cmd/k8s-operator,docs/k8s: run tun mode proxies in privileged containers#14262
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LGTM, we should also update the docs for SecurityContext in ProxyClass.
What's the communication plan for this change, will we add a changelog?
We were previously relying on unintended behaviour by runc where all containers where by default given read/write/mknod permissions for tun devices. This behaviour was removed in opencontainers/runc#3468 and released in runc 1.2. Containerd container runtime, used by Docker and majority of Kubernetes distributions bumped runc to 1.2 in 1.7.24 https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.7.24 thus breaking our reference tun mode Tailscale Kubernetes manifests and Kubernetes operator proxies. This PR changes the all Kubernetes container configs that run Tailscale in tun mode to privileged. This should not be a breaking change because all these containers would run in a Pod that already has a privileged init container. Updates #14256 Updates #10814 Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <[email protected]>
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Good catch, updated
It is non-breaking so changelog should suffice + will update docs |
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…ers (tailscale#14262) We were previously relying on unintended behaviour by runc where all containers where by default given read/write/mknod permissions for tun devices. This behaviour was removed in opencontainers/runc#3468 and released in runc 1.2. Containerd container runtime, used by Docker and majority of Kubernetes distributions bumped runc to 1.2 in 1.7.24 https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.7.24 thus breaking our reference tun mode Tailscale Kubernetes manifests and Kubernetes operator proxies. This PR changes the all Kubernetes container configs that run Tailscale in tun mode to privileged. This should not be a breaking change because all these containers would run in a Pod that already has a privileged init container. Updates tailscale#14256 Updates tailscale#10814 Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <[email protected]>
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We were previously relying on unintended behaviour by runc where all containers where by default given read/write/mknod permissions for tun devices.
This behaviour was removed in opencontainers/runc#3468 and released in runc 1.2.
Containerd container runtime, used by Docker and majority of Kubernetes distributions bumped runc to 1.2 in 1.7.24 https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.7.24 thus breaking our reference tun mode Tailscale Kubernetes manifests and Kubernetes operator proxies.
This PR changes the all Kubernetes container configs that run Tailscale in tun mode to privileged. This should not be a breaking change because all these containers would run in a Pod that already has a privileged init container.
Alternative would be to delegate tun device creation to a device plugin like described in #10814 (comment).
However, this would mean an additional prerequisite and dependency on a third party tool to get started with the operator proxies- it seems like a better way is to make the proxies privileged by default to maintain the ease of installation/quick start setup. We can then document that users can alternatively deploy the device plugin and remove privileged context from the Tailscale containers.
I have tested this with a GKE 1.31.3 cluster + manually bumped containerd to v1.74 and runc to 1.2 as well as with Talos 1.8 that bundles containerd v2.0
Long term, we should look into whether these proxies can be run in netstack mode.
Updates #14256
Updates #10814
Updates #14149