Configure Runtime Hooks

Configure Runtime Hooks

See Tetragon Runtime Hooks, for an introduction to the topic.

We use minikube as the example platform because it supports both cri-o and containerd. Also, at the time of this writing, no images that support this have been released, so we build images locally within a checked out repo.

make image image-operator image-rthooks

CRI-O

Setup Minikube

minikube start --driver=kvm2 --container-runtime=cri-o
minikube image load cilium/tetragon:latest
minikube image load cilium/tetragon-operator:latest
minikube image load cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest
minikube image ls | grep tetragon

The output should be similar to:

localhost/cilium/tetragon:latest
localhost/cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest
localhost/cilium/tetragon-operator:latest

Install Tetragon

helm install \
   --namespace kube-system \
   --set tetragon.image.override=localhost/cilium/tetragon:latest \
   --set tetragonOperator.image.override=localhost/cilium/tetragon-operator:latest \
   --set rthooks.enabled=true \
   --set rthooks.interface=oci-hooks \
   --set rthooks.image.override=localhost/cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest \
   tetragon ./install/kubernetes/tetragon
kubecl -n kube-system get pods | grep tetragon

With output similar to:

tetragon-hpjwq                       2/2     Running   0          2m42s
tetragon-operator-664ddc8957-9lmd2   1/1     Running   0          2m42s
tetragon-rthooks-m24xr               1/1     Running   0          2m42s

Test

Start a pod:

kubectl run test --image=debian  --rm -it -- /bin/bash

Check logs:

minikube ssh 'tail -1 /opt/tetragon/tetragon-oci-hook.log'

Output:

{"time":"2024-07-01T10:57:21.435689144Z","level":"INFO","msg":"hook request to agent succeeded","hook":"create-container","start-time":"2024-07-01T10:57:21.433755984Z","req-cgroups":"/kubepods/besteffort/podd4e74de2-0db8-4143-ae55-695b2489c727/crio-828977b42e3149b502b31708778d0c057efbce038af80d0882ed3e0cb0ff8796","req-rootdir":"/run/containers/storage/overlay-containers/828977b42e3149b502b31708778d0c057efbce038af80d0882ed3e0cb0ff8796/userdata","req-containerName":"test"}

Containerd

Setup Minikube

minikube start --driver=kvm2 --container-runtime=containerd
minikube image load cilium/tetragon:latest
minikube image load cilium/tetragon-operator:latest
minikube image load cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest
minikube image ls | grep tetragon

Output should be similar to:

docker.io/cilium/tetragon:latest
docker.io/cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest
docker.io/cilium/tetragon-operator:latest

Tetragon Runtime Hooks use NRI. NRI is enabled by default starting from containerd version 2.0. For version 1.7, however, it needs to be enabled in the configuration.

minikube ssh cat /etc/containerd/config.toml > /tmp/old-config.toml
./contrib/tetragon-rthooks/tetragon-oci-hook-setup patch-containerd-conf enable-nri --config-file=/tmp/old-config.toml --output=/tmp/new-config.toml
diff -u /tmp/old-config.toml /tmp/new-config.toml

Output should be something like:

--- /tmp/old-config.toml        2024-07-02 11:51:23.893382357 +0200
+++ /tmp/new-config.toml        2024-07-02 11:51:52.841533035 +0200
@@ -67,3 +67,11 @@
     mutation_threshold = 100
     schedule_delay = "0s"
     startup_delay = "100ms"
+  [plugins."io.containerd.nri.v1.nri"]
+    disable = false
+    disable_connections = false
+    plugin_config_path = "/etc/nri/conf.d"
+    plugin_path = "/opt/nri/plugins"
+    plugin_registration_timeout = "5s"
+    plugin_request_timeout = "2s"
+    socket_path = "/var/run/nri/nri.sock"

Install the new configuration file and restart containerd

minikube cp /tmp/new-config.toml /etc/containerd/config.toml
minikube ssh sudo systemctl restart containerd

Install Tetragon

helm install \
   --namespace kube-system \
   --set tetragon.image.override=docker.io/cilium/tetragon:latest \
   --set tetragonOperator.image.override=docker.io/cilium/tetragon-operator:latest \
   --set rthooks.enabled=true \
   --set rthooks.interface=nri-hook \
   --set rthooks.image.override=docker.io/cilium/tetragon-rthooks:latest \
   tetragon ./install/kubernetes/tetragon
kubectl -n kube-system get pods | grep tetragon

Output should be similar to:

tetragon-operator-754b85cfd4-2mdd7   1/1     Running   0              24m
tetragon-pjrsf                       2/2     Running   0              24m
tetragon-rthooks-6g8cq               1/1     Running   0              24m

Test

Start a pod:

kubectl run test --image=debian  --rm -it -- /bin/bash

Examine the log file:

minikube ssh 'tail -1 /opt/tetragon/tetragon-oci-hook.log'

Output:

{"time":"2024-07-02T12:02:02.823291054Z","level":"INFO","msg":"hook request to agent succeeded","hook":"createRuntime","start-time":"2024-07-02T12:02:02.816185835Z","req-cgroups":"/kubepods/besteffort/pod9305570c-ac68-4f95-96d8-afbb138bd0b0/42469ae2c52d0ee340b550b8a07a142c9b8cc709aa8ca75b777bb00812149621","req-rootdir":"/run/containerd/io.containerd.runtime.v2.task/k8s.io/42469ae2c52d0ee340b550b8a07a142c9b8cc709aa8ca75b777bb00812149621","req-containerName":"test"}
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