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Clusters should be set to private

Default Severity: medium

Explanation

Enabling private nodes on a cluster ensures the nodes are only available internally as they will only be assigned internal addresses.

Possible Impact

Nodes may be exposed to the public internet

Suggested Resolution

Enable private cluster

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the google-gke-enable-private-cluster check. 

 resource "google_service_account" "default" {
   account_id   = "service-account-id"
   display_name = "Service Account"
 }

 resource "google_container_cluster" "bad_example" {
   name     = "my-gke-cluster"
   location = "us-central1"

   # We can't create a cluster with no node pool defined, but we want to only use
   # separately managed node pools. So we create the smallest possible default
   # node pool and immediately delete it.
   remove_default_node_pool = true
   initial_node_count       = 1
   private_cluster_config {
     enable_private_nodes = false
   }
 }

 resource "google_container_node_pool" "primary_preemptible_nodes" {
   name       = "my-node-pool"
   location   = "us-central1"
   cluster    = google_container_cluster.primary.name
   node_count = 1

   node_config {
     preemptible  = true
     machine_type = "e2-medium"

     # Google recommends custom service accounts that have cloud-platform scope and permissions granted via IAM Roles.
     service_account = google_service_account.default.email
     oauth_scopes    = [
       "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
     ]
   }
 }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the google-gke-enable-private-cluster check. 

 resource "google_service_account" "default" {
   account_id   = "service-account-id"
   display_name = "Service Account"
 }

 resource "google_container_cluster" "good_example" {
   name     = "my-gke-cluster"
   location = "us-central1"

   # We can't create a cluster with no node pool defined, but we want to only use
   # separately managed node pools. So we create the smallest possible default
   # node pool and immediately delete it.
   remove_default_node_pool = true
   initial_node_count       = 1
   private_cluster_config {
     enable_private_nodes = true
   }
 }

 resource "google_container_node_pool" "primary_preemptible_nodes" {
   name       = "my-node-pool"
   location   = "us-central1"
   cluster    = google_container_cluster.primary.name
   node_count = 1

   node_config {
     preemptible  = true
     machine_type = "e2-medium"

     # Google recommends custom service accounts that have cloud-platform scope and permissions granted via IAM Roles.
     service_account = google_service_account.default.email
     oauth_scopes    = [
       "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
     ]
   }
 }