Task Type: deployManifest

Policy controls whether or not a deployManifest that is triggered from outside a spinnaker pipeline (e.g. from the ‘Clusters’ tab of an application’s ’edit’ action) can run.
  • Path: tasks
  • Method: Post
  • Package: spinnaker.http.authz

Compatibility note

Starting in 2.26, the UI has been updated to more closely follow immutable infrastructure principles.

When you navigate to the Infrastructure tab in the UI for an application that has the Kubernetes provider configured, actions that change the Kubernetes infrastructure (such as Create or Delete), including Clusters, Load Balancers, and Firewalls, are no longer available.

Impact

Users do not see these actions in the UI by default. You must configure the UI to display them if you want your users to be able to perform them through the UI. To write policies that control which user roles can see the UI actions and be able to use them, you must enable the actions.

Workaround

Whether or not these actions are available in the UI is controlled by the following property in settings-local.yml:

window.spinnakerSettings.kubernetesAdHocInfraWritesEnabled = <boolean>;

Note that disabling the UI does not completely prevent users from performing these actions. For that, you must create policies.

Set this property to true. Setting the value to false hides the buttons for all users regardless of whether you grant specific users access to the buttons through the Policy Engine.

Example Payload

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{
  "input": {
    "body": {
      "application": "hostname",
      "description": "Deploy manifest",
      "job": [
        {
          "account": "spinnaker",
          "cloudProvider": "kubernetes",
          "manifest": null,
          "manifestArtifactAccount": "embedded-artifact",
          "manifests": [
            {
              "apiVersion": "apps/v1",
              "kind": "Deployment",
              "metadata": {
                "annotations": {
                  "artifact.spinnaker.io/location": "staging",
                  "artifact.spinnaker.io/name": "hostname",
                  "artifact.spinnaker.io/type": "kubernetes/deployment",
                  "artifact.spinnaker.io/version": "",
                  "moniker.spinnaker.io/application": "hostname",
                  "moniker.spinnaker.io/cluster": "deployment hostname"
                },
                "labels": {
                  "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by": "spinnaker",
                  "app.kubernetes.io/name": "hostname"
                },
                "name": "hostname",
                "namespace": "staging"
              },
              "spec": {
                "replicas": 4,
                "selector": {
                  "matchLabels": {
                    "app": "hostname",
                    "version": "v1"
                  }
                },
                "strategy": {
                  "rollingUpdate": {
                    "maxSurge": 1,
                    "maxUnavailable": 1
                  },
                  "type": "RollingUpdate"
                },
                "template": {
                  "metadata": {
                    "annotations": {
                      "artifact.spinnaker.io/location": "staging",
                      "artifact.spinnaker.io/name": "hostname",
                      "artifact.spinnaker.io/type": "kubernetes/deployment",
                      "artifact.spinnaker.io/version": "",
                      "moniker.spinnaker.io/application": "hostname",
                      "moniker.spinnaker.io/cluster": "deployment hostname",
                      "prometheus.io/port": "9113",
                      "prometheus.io/scrape": "true"
                    },
                    "labels": {
                      "app": "hostname",
                      "app.kubernetes.io/managed-by": "spinnaker",
                      "app.kubernetes.io/name": "hostname",
                      "version": "v1"
                    }
                  },
                  "spec": {
                    "containers": [
                      {
                        "image": "rstarmer/hostname:v1",
                        "imagePullPolicy": "Always",
                        "name": "hostname",
                        "resources": {},
                        "volumeMounts": [
                          {
                            "mountPath": "/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx-status.conf",
                            "name": "nginx-status-conf",
                            "readOnly": true,
                            "subPath": "nginx.status.conf"
                          }
                        ]
                      },
                      {
                        "args": [
                          "-nginx.scrape-uri=http://localhost:8090/nginx_status"
                        ],
                        "image": "nginx/nginx-prometheus-exporter:0.3.0",
                        "imagePullPolicy": "Always",
                        "name": "nginx-exporter",
                        "ports": [
                          {
                            "containerPort": 9113,
                            "name": "nginx-ex-port",
                            "protocol": "TCP"
                          }
                        ]
                      }
                    ],
                    "restartPolicy": "Always",
                    "volumes": [
                      {
                        "configMap": {
                          "defaultMode": 420,
                          "name": "nginx-status-conf-v000"
                        },
                        "name": "nginx-status-conf"
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          ],
          "moniker": {
            "app": "hostname",
            "cluster": "deployment hostname"
          },
          "relationships": {
            "loadBalancers": [],
            "securityGroups": []
          },
          "source": "text",
          "type": "deployManifest",
          "user": "myUserName",
          "versioned": null
        }
      ]
    },
    "method": "POST",
    "path": [
      "tasks"
    ],
    "user": {
      "isAdmin": false,
      "roles": [],
      "username": "myUserName"
    }
  }
}

Example Policy

Prevents editing manifests from outside of a pipeline on production accounts.

package spinnaker.http.authz
default message=""
allow = message==""

isProductionAccount(account){
	["prodAccount1","prodAccount2"][_]==account
}

message = "Manifests cannot be deployed outside of a pipeline in production accounts"{
      createsTaskOfType("deployManifest")
      isProductionAccount(input.body.job[_].account)
}
createsTaskOfType(tasktype){
    input.method="POST"
    input.path=["tasks"]
    input.body.job[_].type=tasktype
}

Keys

Key Type Description
input.body.application string The name of the application for which a manifest is deployed.
input.body.description string “Deploy Manifest”.
input.body.job[].account string The account to which the manifest is deployed.
input.body.job[].cloudProvider string The cloud provider for the account, typically ‘kubernetes’.
input.body.job[].manifestArtifactAccount string The account from which the manifest artifact should be read, if any.
input.body.job[].manifests[].* * The set of manifests that are deployed. Can be referenced to require certain conditions on manifests that are being deployed.
input.body.job[].moniker.app string The name of the application for which a manifest is deployed.
input.body.job[].moniker.cluster string What existing resource cluster is having its manifest updated.
input.body.job[].source string
input.body.job[].type string “deployManifest”
input.body.job[].user string The username of the user who is trying to deploy. More information is available under the input.user fields.
input.body.job[].versioned
input.method string POST
input.path[] string [tasks]

input.user

This object provides information about the user performing the action. This can be used to restrict actions by role. See input.user for more information.


Last modified August 18, 2023: (02b163b7)