Kong Helm Chart

Kong
Analyzed version: 3.4.5

By microfunctionsio

Kong is a scalable, open source API layer (aka API gateway or API middleware) that runs in front of any RESTful API. Extra functionalities beyond the core platform are extended through plugins. Kong is built on top of reliable technologies like NGINX and provides an easy-to-use RESTful API to operate and configure the system.

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 Kong Helm Chart

Add Chart Repository to Helm

helm repo add microfunctions https://microfunctionsio.github.io/microfunctions-helm

Install Chart

helm install my-kong microfunctions/kong --version 3.4.5

Does the Kong chart contain security gaps?

The chart meets the best practices recommended by the industry.

The chart contains 9 misconfigurations.

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured CPU request

3 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong (kind: Deployment)
  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (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 CPU limit

4 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong (kind: Deployment)
  • metadata.name: release-name-postgresql (kind: StatefulSet)
  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (kind: Job)

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

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❌ Prevent workload from using the default namespace

3 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong (kind: Deployment)
  • metadata.name: release-name-postgresql (kind: StatefulSet)
  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (kind: Job)

💡 Incorrect value for key `namespace` - use an explicit namespace instead of the default one (`default`)

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured memory request

3 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong (kind: Deployment)
  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (kind: Job)

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

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured readiness probe

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (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: release-name-kong-scripts (kind: ConfigMap)

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

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❌ Ensure each container has a configured memory limit

4 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong (kind: Deployment)
  • metadata.name: release-name-postgresql (kind: StatefulSet)
  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (kind: Job)

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

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

2 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-postgresql (kind: StatefulSet)

💡 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 liveness probe

1 occurrences:

  • metadata.name: release-name-kong-migrate (kind: Job)

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

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