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Network policy disabled

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Id: ansible-gcp-network-policy-disabled

Provider: GCP

Platform: Ansible

Severity: Medium

Category: Insecure Configurations

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Description

Kubernetes Engine clusters must have network policy enabled to enforce pod-to-pod network segmentation and limit lateral movement. Without it, workloads can communicate unrestricted and a compromised pod could access other services or sensitive data.

For Ansible-managed GKE clusters using google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster or gcp_container_cluster, the network_policy.enabled property must be true and addons_config.network_policy_config.disabled must be false. Resources missing the network_policy or addons_config.network_policy_config blocks, or with network_policy.enabled set to false or addons_config.network_policy_config.disabled set to true, are flagged as misconfigured.

Secure Ansible configuration example:

- name: Create GKE cluster with Network Policy enabled
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster
    location: us-central1
    network_policy:
      enabled: true
    addons_config:
      network_policy_config:
        disabled: false

Compliant Code Examples

#this code is a correct code for which the query should not find any result
- name: create a cluster
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: /tmp/auth.pem
    state: present
    network_policy:
      enabled: yes
    addons_config:
      network_policy_config:
        disabled: no

Non-Compliant Code Examples

#this is a problematic code where the query should report a result(s)
- name: create a cluster1
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster1
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
    addons_config:
      network_policy_config:
        disabled: false
- name: create a cluster2
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster2
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
    network_policy:
      enabled: yes
- name: create a cluster3
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster3
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
    network_policy:
      enabled: yes
    addons_config:
      horizontal_pod_autoscaling:
        disabled: yes
- name: create a cluster4
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster4
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
    network_policy:
      enabled: no
    addons_config:
      network_policy_config:
        disabled: no
- name: create a cluster5
  google.cloud.gcp_container_cluster:
    name: my-cluster5
    initial_node_count: 2
    master_auth:
      username: cluster_admin
      password: my-secret-password
    node_config:
      machine_type: n1-standard-4
      disk_size_gb: 500
    location: us-central1-a
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
    network_policy:
      enabled: yes
    addons_config:
      network_policy_config:
        disabled: yes