Implement imago as an AdmissionController

[philpep]

The admission controller will modify the configured images with fixed digest and add imago annotation.

[micw]

Hello,

if imago runs as a service (for webhook or admission controller), would you also implement the scheduling in this service or would I need to run it as cron too?

If you do implement it into one service (which I'd prefer ;-) ), I suggest to allow to configure different filters for services that are handled by the admission controller and services that should be auto-updated. I can imagine multiple use cases:

Automated deployment on a staging environment for manual testing:

• images have a version like 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT and are mutable
• a kubectl or helm deployment is triggered via Jenkins
• the admission controller rewrites 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT to the current hash, so the latest build is used
• the cron should ignore this deployments so that manual testing does not get interrupted

Installation of security updates

• a deployment with image tag 1.0 which is mutable and regulary updated to the latest 1.0.x version of the app
• the cron does rewrites to the latest hash if the tag reference has changed
• up to here this is possible without the admission controller. problem is that a redeployment is forced when the application is updated with helm/kubectl because the image tag would be changed back from the hash to the 1.0
• so with the admission controller this whould be rewritten too.

To support both usecases within the same cluster, I'd configure the admission controller to filter on annotation or label "imago/rewrite-on-deployment" and the cron to filter on "imago/auto-rewrite" (or similar).

[philpep]

Hi @micw , thanks for the suggestion ! Yes I think controlling the future AdmissionController behavior with annotations is the way to go for incremental use. Also maybe have an option to control this (check or not check annotations).

[blairdrummond]

I think Kyverno covers this use-case somewhat

https://kyverno.io/policies/other/resolve_image_to_digest/resolve-image-to-digest/