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Chapter 6. Checking audit logs

You can use audit logs to identify pod security violations.

You can identify pod security admission violations on a workload by viewing the server audit logs. The following procedure shows you how to access the audit logs and parse them to find pod security admission violations in a workload.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed jq.
  • You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin role.

Procedure

  1. To retrieve the node name, run the following command: 

    $ <node_name>=$(oc get node -ojsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
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  2. To view the audit logs, run the following command: 

    $ oc adm node-logs <node_name> --path=kube-apiserver/
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    Example output

    rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-18T18-25-41.663.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-19T11-21-29.225.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-20T04-16-09.622.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-20T21-11-41.163.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-21T14-06-10.402.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-22T06-35-10.392.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-22T23-26-27.667.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-23T16-52-15.456.log
rhel-92.lab.local audit-2023-08-24T07-31-55.238.log
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  3. To parse the affected audit logs, enter the following command: 

    $ oc adm node-logs <node_name> --path=kube-apiserver/audit.log \
  | jq -r 'select((.annotations["pod-security.kubernetes.io/audit-violations"] != null) and (.objectRef.resource=="pods")) | .objectRef.namespace + " " + .objectRef.name + " " + .objectRef.resource' \
  | sort | uniq -c
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