Policy is being flagged in the log but it is allowed to be created

[soroushatarod]

What steps did you take and what happened:

1. Install OPA gatekeeper

kubectl apply -f  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper/release-3.14/deploy/gatekeeper.yaml

2. Apply Constraint Template from the Policy sample

https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper-library/blob/master/library/general/disallowedrepos/template.yaml

apiVersion: templates.gatekeeper.sh/v1
kind: ConstraintTemplate
metadata:
  name: k8sdisallowedrepos
  annotations:
    metadata.gatekeeper.sh/title: "Disallowed Repositories"
    metadata.gatekeeper.sh/version: 1.0.0
    description: >-
      Disallowed container repositories that begin with a string from the specified list.
spec:
  crd:
    spec:
      names:
        kind: K8sDisallowedRepos
      validation:
        # Schema for the `parameters` field
        openAPIV3Schema:
          type: object
          properties:
            repos:
              description: The list of prefixes a container image is not allowed to have.
              type: array
              items:
                type: string
  targets:
    - target: admission.k8s.gatekeeper.sh
      rego: |
        package k8sdisallowedrepos

        violation[{"msg": msg}] {
          container := input.review.object.spec.containers[_]
          image := container.image
          startswith(image, input.parameters.repos[_])
          msg := sprintf("container <%v> has an invalid image repo <%v>, disallowed repos are %v", [container.name, container.image, input.parameters.repos])
        }

        violation[{"msg": msg}] {
          container := input.review.object.spec.initContainers[_]
          image := container.image
          startswith(image, input.parameters.repos[_])
          msg := sprintf("initContainer <%v> has an invalid image repo <%v>, disallowed repos are %v", [container.name, container.image, input.parameters.repos])
        }

        violation[{"msg": msg}] {
          container := input.review.object.spec.ephemeralContainers[_]
          image := container.image
          startswith(image, input.parameters.repos[_])
          msg := sprintf("ephemeralContainer <%v> has an invalid image repo <%v>, disallowed repos are %v", [container.name, container.image, input.parameters.repos])
        }

3. Apply Constraint from the Policy sample Github

apiVersion: constraints.gatekeeper.sh/v1beta1
kind: K8sDisallowedRepos
metadata:
  name: repo-must-not-be-k8s-gcr-io
spec:
  match:
    kinds:
      - apiGroups: [""]
        kinds: ["Pod"]
  parameters:
    repos:
      - "k8s.gcr.io/"

4. Try creating a Pod with the k8s.gcr.io as the registry

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: kustomize-disallowed
spec:
  containers:
    - name: kustomize
      image: k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:latest
      securityContext:
        allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
        runAsNonRoot: true
        capabilities:
          drop:
            - ALL
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault

What did you expect to happen:

Not able to create the Pod and receive a message "Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating "container has an invalid image repo <k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:latest>,
disallowed repos are ["k8s.gcr.io/\ "

Anything else you would like to add:

[Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]
Gatekeeper flags it in the log file but it allows the creation which to me is a bug.

{"level":"info","ts":1705611801.8987546,"logger":"controller",
"msg":"container <kustomize> has an invalid image repo <k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:latest>,
 disallowed repos are [\"k8s.gcr.io/\"]",
"process":"audit","audit_id":"2024-01-18T21:03:20Z",
"details":{},"event_type":"violation_audited",
"constraint_group":"constraints.gatekeeper.sh",
"constraint_api_version":"v1beta1","constraint_kind":"K8sDisallowedRepos",
"constraint_name":"repo-must-not-be-k8s-gcr-io","constraint_namespace":"",
"constraint_action":"deny","constraint_annotations":{},"resource_group":"","resource_api_version":"v1",
"resource_kind":"Pod","resource_namespace":"default",
"resource_name":"kustomize-disallowed","resource_labels":null}

Environment:

• Gatekeeper version:
  3.14
• Kubernetes version: (use kubectl version):
  Client Version: v1.28.3
  Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
  Server Version: v1.24.17-eks-5e0fdde
  WARNING: version difference between client (1.28) and server (1.24) exceeds the supported minor version skew of +/-1

Running on EKS

[JaydipGabani]

@soroushatarod Can you make sure your gatekeeper-controller-manager pods are running?

I am not able to create pod with the same yamls you provided above.

kubectl get constrainttemplates.templates.gatekeeper.sh 
NAME                 AGE
k8sdisallowedrepos   8m50s

kubectl get constraints
NAME                          ENFORCEMENT-ACTION   TOTAL-VIOLATIONS
repo-must-not-be-k8s-gcr-io                        0

cat pod.yaml 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: kustomize-disallowed
spec:
  containers:
    - name: kustomize
      image: k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:latest
      securityContext:
        allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
        runAsNonRoot: true
        capabilities:
          drop:
            - ALL
        seccompProfile:
          type: RuntimeDefault

kubectl apply -f pod.yaml 
Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating "pod.yaml": admission webhook "validation.gatekeeper.sh" denied the request: [repo-must-not-be-k8s-gcr-io] container <kustomize> has an invalid image repo <k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:latest>, disallowed repos are ["k8s.gcr.io/"]

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