Linkerd-viz Helm Chart

Linkerd-viz
Analyzed version: 30.2.0-edge

By Buoyant

The Linkerd-Viz extension contains observability and visualization components for Linkerd.

Prometheus, a CNCF project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.

This chart bootstraps a Prometheus deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Latest version: 15.5.3
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How to Install the Linkerd-viz Helm Chart

Add Chart Repository to Helm

helm repo add linkerd2-edge https://helm.linkerd.io/edge

Install Chart

helm install my-linkerd-viz linkerd2-edge/linkerd-viz --version 30.2.0-edge

Does the Linkerd-viz chart contain security gaps?

The chart meets the best practices recommended by the industry.

The chart contains 8 misconfigurations.

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured CPU request

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `requests.cpu` - value should be within the accepted boundaries recommended by the organization

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured memory limit

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `limits.memory` - value should be within the accepted boundaries recommended by the organization

Learn how to fix the issue here

❌ Ensure each container has a configured CPU limit

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `limits.cpu` - value should be within the accepted boundaries recommended by the organization

Learn how to fix the issue here

❌ Ensure each container has a configured liveness probe

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `livenessProbe` - add a properly configured livenessProbe to catch possible deadlocks

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured readiness probe

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `readinessProbe` - add a properly configured readinessProbe to notify kubelet your Pods are ready for traffic

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❌ Prevent ConfigMap security vulnerability (CVE-2021-25742)

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: prometheus-config (kind: ConfigMap)

💡 Missing property object `allow-snippet-annotations` - set it to "false" to override default behaviour

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❌ Prevent container security vulnerability (CVE-2021-25741)

2 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: prometheus (kind: Deployment)

💡 Forbidden property object `subPath` - malicious users can gain access to files & directories outside of the volume

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured memory request

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: namespace-metadata (kind: Job)

💡 Missing property object `requests.memory` - value should be within the accepted boundaries recommended by the organization

Learn how to fix the issue here

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