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Kubernetes Goat is a "Vulnerable by Design" cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security using an interactive hands-on playground 🚀

Kubernetes Goat

✨ The Kubernetes Goat is designed to be an intentionally vulnerable cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security 🚀

🙌 Refer to https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat for the guide 📖

⚙️ Setting up Kubernetes Goat

• Ensure you have admin access to the Kubernetes cluster and installed kubectl. Refer to the docs for installation

• Ensure you have the helm package manager installed. Refer to the docs for installation

• To set up the Kubernetes Goat resources in your cluster, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/madhuakula/kubernetes-goat.git
cd kubernetes-goat
chmod +x setup-kubernetes-goat.sh
bash setup-kubernetes-goat.sh

• Ensure the pods are running before running the access script

kubectl get pods

• Access Kubernetes Goat by exposing the resources to the local system (port-forward) by the following command:

bash access-kubernetes-goat.sh

• Then navigate to http://127.0.0.1:1234

Refer to https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat/docs/how-to-run for setting up Kubernetes Goat in various environments like GKE, EKS, AKS, K3S, KIND, etc.

🏆 Scenarios

1. Sensitive keys in codebases
2. DIND (docker-in-docker) exploitation
3. SSRF in the Kubernetes (K8S) world
4. Container escape to the host system
5. Docker CIS benchmarks analysis
6. Kubernetes CIS benchmarks analysis
7. Attacking private registry
8. NodePort exposed services
9. Helm v2 tiller to PwN the cluster - [Deprecated]
10. Analyzing crypto miner container
11. Kubernetes namespaces bypass
12. Gaining environment information
13. DoS the Memory/CPU resources
14. Hacker container preview
15. Hidden in layers
16. RBAC least privileges misconfiguration
17. KubeAudit - Audit Kubernetes clusters
18. Falco - Runtime security monitoring & detection
19. Popeye - A Kubernetes cluster sanitizer
20. Secure network boundaries using NSP
21. Cilium Tetragon - eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement
22. Securing Kubernetes Clusters using Kyverno Policy Engine

📖 Documentation Guide

Here is the detailed step by step guide for learning and using Kubernetes Goat 🎉: documentation guide

Reference: https://madhuakula.com/kubernetes-goat

⚠️ Disclaimer

Kubernetes Goat has intentionally created vulnerabilities, applications, and configurations to attack and gain access to your cluster and workloads. Please DO NOT run this alongside your production environments and infrastructure. We highly recommend running this in a safe and isolated (contained) environment.

Kubernetes Goat is used for educational purposes only. Do not test or apply these attacks on any systems without permission. Kubernetes Goat comes with absolutely no warranties, by using it you take full responsibility for all outcomes.

📝 License

MIT

✨ Acknowledgements

Thanks to to these wonderful people: 🎉

madhuakula	apvarun	ant4g0nist	phpsystems	adamhurm	malwareowl
mkcn	0xCardinal	macagr	rewanthtammana	avicoder	dependabot[bot]
AmeerAssadi	NF997	smoyer64	suneshgovind	wurstbrot	shivankar-madaan
bzd111	hexachordanu	podjackel	ravenium