audit k8s docker image versions

descr

let’s say you have a security warning about specific k8s nodes from a security audit

we need to find out which docker images (and their possibly outdated version…) are running on a precise k8s node

identify node

let’s say we want to proceed node by node

first make sure you’re on the right cluster

kubectx

list nodes in that cluster

kubectl get nodes

seek pods

list running pods on that node

node=...
kubectl describe node $node | sed -n '/^Non-terminated Pods:/,$p'

get into the right namespace and show running pods on that node again

ns=...

kubens $ns
kubectl get pods -o wide | grep -E "[[:space:]]+$node[[:space:]]+"

ready to go

finally show used image on a specific running pod

pod=...
kubectl get pod $pod -o yaml | grep image: | sort -uV

or against all those pods altogether

pods=`kubectl get pods -o wide | grep -E "[[:space:]]+$node[[:space:]]+" | awk '{print $1}'`

for pod in $pods; do
        kubectl get pod $pod -o yaml | grep image: | sort -uV
done; unset pod