Prerequisites for Prisma Scanner for Supply Chain Security Tools - Scan (Alpha)

This topic describes prerequisites you must complete to install SCST - Scan (Prisma) from the VMware package repository.

Caution

This integration is in alpha, which means that it is still in early development by the Tanzu Practices Global Tech Team and might be subject to change at any point. You might encounter unexpected behavior.

Verify the latest alpha package version

Print a list of available tags by running:

imgpkg tag list -i projects.registry.vmware.com/tanzu_practice/tap-scanners-package/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle | sort -V

Use the latest version returned in place of the sample version in this topic. For example, it is 0.1.5-alpha.13 in this example:

$ imgpkg tag list -i projects.registry.vmware.com/tanzu_practice/tap-scanners-package/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle | sort -V
0.1.4-alpha.11
0.1.4-alpha.12
0.1.4-alpha.15
0.1.5-alpha.11
0.1.5-alpha.12
0.1.5-alpha.13

Move images to a registry

You must move the images from tanzu.packages.broadcom.com to your own container image registry before installing.

Prisma Scanner is in the alpha development phase, and not packaged as part of Tanzu Application Platform. It is hosted on tanzu.packages.broadcom.com.

For information about supported registries, see each registry’s documentation.

To move images from tanzu.packages.broadcom.com to your registry:

  1. Retrieve your Broadcom registry API token:

    1. Sign in to the Broadcom Support Portal.

    2. Go to Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) and expand the VMware Tanzu Application Platform drop-down menu.

    3. Click the Token Download icon next to the Tanzu Application Platform version you want to download.

      The Tanzu Application Platform download page in the Broadcom Support Portal with the Token Download icon highlighted.

    4. Follow the instructions in the dialog and then save the token as a variable named MY_BROADCOM_SUPPORT_ACCESS_TOKEN by running:

      export MY_BROADCOM_SUPPORT_ACCESS_TOKEN=API-TOKEN

      Where API-TOKEN is your token from the Broadcom Support Portal.

  2. Set up environment variables for installation by running:

    export IMGPKG_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME_0=tanzu.packages.broadcom.com
export IMGPKG_REGISTRY_USERNAME_0=MY-BROADCOM-SUPPORT-USERNAME
export IMGPKG_REGISTRY_PASSWORD_0=${MY_BROADCOM_SUPPORT_ACCESS_TOKEN}
export INSTALL_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME=MY-REGISTRY
export INSTALL_REGISTRY_USERNAME=MY-REGISTRY-USER
export INSTALL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD=MY-REGISTRY-PASSWORD
export VERSION=VERSION-NUMBER
export INSTALL_REPO=TARGET-REPOSITORY

    Where:

    • MY-BROADCOM-SUPPORT-USERNAME is the user with access to the images in tanzu.packages.broadcom.com.
    • MY-REGISTRY is your own registry.
    • MY-REGISTRY-USER is the user with write access to MY-REGISTRY.
    • MY-REGISTRY-PASSWORD is the password for MY-REGISTRY-USER.
    • VERSION-NUMBER is your Prisma Scanner version. For example, 0.1.4-alpha.12.
    • TARGET-REPOSITORY is your target repository. This is a directory or repository on MY-REGISTRY that serves as the location for the installation files for Prisma Scanner.

  3. Install the Carvel tool imgpkg CLI. For more information, see Deploying Cluster Essentials.

  4. Relocate images with the imgpkg CLI by running:

    imgpkg copy -b projects.registry.vmware.com/tanzu_practice/tap-scanners-package/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle:${VERSION} \
--to-repo ${INSTALL_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME}/${INSTALL_REPO}/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle

Add the Prisma Scanner package repository

Tanzu CLI packages are available on repositories. Adding the Prisma Scanning package repository makes the Prisma Scanning bundle and its packages available for installation.

VMware recommends installing the Prisma Scanner objects in the existing tap-install namespace to keep Prisma Scanner grouped logically with the other Tanzu Application Platform components.

  1. Add the Prisma Scanner package repository to the cluster by running:

    tanzu package repository add prisma-scanner-repository \
 --url ${INSTALL_REGISTRY_HOSTNAME}/${INSTALL_REPO}/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle:$VERSION \
 --namespace tap-install

  2. Get the status of the Prisma Scanner package repository, and ensure that the status updates to Reconcile succeeded, by running:

    tanzu package repository get prisma-scanner-repository --namespace tap-install

    For example:

    $ tanzu package repository get prisma-scanning-repository --namespace tap-install
- Retrieving repository prisma-scanner-repository...
NAME:          prisma-scanner-repository
VERSION:       71091125
REPOSITORY:    projects.registry.vmware.com/tanzu_practice/tap-scanners-package/prisma-repo-scanning-bundle
TAG:           0.1.4-alpha.12
STATUS:        Reconcile succeeded
REASON:

  3. List the available packages by running:

    tanzu package available list --namespace tap-install

    For example:

    $ tanzu package available list --namespace tap-install
/ Retrieving available packages...
 NAME                                                 DISPLAY-NAME                                                              SHORT-DESCRIPTION
 prisma.scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com                Prisma for Supply Chain Security Tools - Scan                             Default scan templates using Prisma

Prepare the Prisma Scanner configuration

Before installing Prisma Scanner, you must create the configuration and a Kubernetes secret that contains credentials to access Prisma Cloud.

Obtain the console URL and access keys and token

Prisma Scanner supports two methods of authentication:

  • Basic authentication with an API key and a secret
  • Token-based authentication

The steps to configure both are outlined in this topic to help you to decide which option to use.

Note

The tokens issued by Prisma Cloud expires after 1 hour, so this method requires frequent refreshing.

To obtain your Prisma compute console URL and access keys and token. For more information, see the Palo Alto Networks documentation.

Access key and secret authentication
To create a Prisma secret:

  1. Create a Prisma secret YAML file and insert the base64-encoded Prisma API token into the prisma_token:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-SECRET
 namespace: APP-NAME
data:
 username: BASE64-PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-ID
 password: BASE64-PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-PASSWORD

    Where:

    • PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-SECRET is the name of your Prisma token secret.
    • APP-NAME is the namespace you want to use.
    • BASE64-PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-ID is your base64-encoded Prisma access key ID.
    • BASE64-PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-PASSWORD is your base64-encoded Prisma access key password.

  2. Apply the Prisma secret YAML file by running:

    kubectl apply -f YAML-FILE

    Where YAML-FILE is the name of the Prisma secret YAML file you created.

  3. Use the --values-file flag to customize the default configuration. You must define the following fields in the values.yaml file for the Prisma Scanner configuration. You can add fields to activate or deactivate behaviors. You can append the values to this file as shown later in this topic. Create a values.yaml file by using the following configuration:

    ---
namespace: DEV-NAMESPACE
targetImagePullSecret: TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET
prisma:
 url: PRISMA-URL
 basicAuth:
   name: PRISMA-ACCESS-KEY-SECRET

    Where:

    • DEV-NAMESPACE is your developer namespace. To use a namespace other than the default namespace, ensure that the namespace exists before you install. If the namespace does not exist, the scanner installation fails.
    • TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET is the name of the secret that contains the credentials to pull an image from a private registry for scanning.
    • PRISMA-URL is the FQDN of your Twistlock server.
    • PRISMA-CONFIG-SECRET is the name of the secret you created that contains the Prisma configuration to connect to Prisma. This field is required.
Access token authentication
To access token authentication:

  1. Create a Prisma secret YAML file and insert the base64-encoded Prisma API token into the prisma_token as in this example:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: PRISMA-TOKEN-SECRET
 namespace: APP-NAME
data:
 prisma_token: BASE64-PRISMA-API-TOKEN

    Where:

    • PRISMA-TOKEN-SECRET is the name of your Prisma token secret.
    • APP-NAME is the namespace you want to use.
    • BASE64-PRISMA-API-TOKEN is the name of your base64-encoded Prisma API token.

  2. Apply the Prisma secret YAML file by running:

    kubectl apply -f YAML-FILE

    Where YAML-FILE is the name of the Prisma secret YAML file you created.

  3. Use the --values-file flag to customize the default configuration. You must define the following fields in the values.yaml file for the Prisma Scanner configuration. You can add fields as needed to activate or deactivate behaviors. You can append the values to this file as shown later in this topic. Create a values.yaml file by using the following configuration:

    ---
namespace: DEV-NAMESPACE
targetImagePullSecret: TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET
prisma:
 url: PRISMA-URL
 tokenSecret:
   name: PRISMA-CONFIG-SECRET

    Where:

    • DEV-NAMESPACE is your developer namespace. To use a namespace other than the default namespace, ensure that the namespace exists before you install. If the namespace does not exist, the scanner installation fails.
    • TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET is the name of the secret that contains the credentials to pull an image from a private registry for scanning.
    • PRISMA-URL is the FQDN of your Twistlock server.
    • PRISMA-CONFIG-SECRET is the name of the secret you created that contains the Prisma configuration to connect to Prisma. This field is required.

Activate or deactivate SCST - Store integration

The Prisma Scanner integration can work with or without the SCST - Store integration. The values.yaml file is slightly different for each configuration.

When using SCST - Store integration to persist the results that Prisma Scanner finds you can enable the SCST - Store integration by appending the fields to the values.yaml file.

The Grype, Snyk, and Prisma Scanner integrations enable the Metadata Store. To prevent conflicts, the configuration values are slightly different based on whether the Grype Scanner integration is installed or not. If you install Tanzu Application Platform by using the Full Profile, the Grype Scanner integration is installed unless you explicitly exclude it.

Another scanner is already installed
You need your CA secret name and authentication token secret name for values.yaml when installing Prisma Scanner.

You can find your CA secret name and authentication token secret name in the configuration of an installed scanner in the namespace that you want to install Prisma Scanner in.

For information about how the scanner was likely initially created, see Set up multicluster SCST - Store

Here is an example values.yaml when there are other scanners already installed in the same dev-namespace where Prisma Scanner is installed:

#! ...
metadataStore:
  #! The URL where the Store deployment is accessible.
  #! Default value is: "https://metadata-store-app.metadata-store.svc.cluster.local:8443"
  url: "STORE-URL"
  caSecret:
    #! The name of the secret that contains the ca.crt to connect to the Store deployment.
    #! Default value is: "app-tls-cert"
    name: "CA-SECRET-NAME"
    importFromNamespace: "" #! Because both Prisma and Grype/Snyk both enable store, one must leave importFromNamespace blank
  #! authSecret is for multicluster configurations.
  authSecret:
    #! The name of the secret that contains the auth token to authenticate to the Store deployment.
    name: "AUTH-SECRET-NAME"
    importFromNamespace: "" #! Because both Prisma and Grype/Snyk both enable store, one must leave importFromNamespace blank

Where:

  • STORE-URL is the URL where the Store deployment is accessible.
  • CA-SECRET-NAME is the name of the secret that contains the ca.crt to connect to the Store deployment. The default value is app-tls-cert.
  • AUTH-SECRET-NAME is the name of the secret that contains the authentication token to authenticate to the Store deployment.
No other scanners are installed
For information about creating and exporting secrets for the Metadata Store CA and authentication token referenced in the data values when installing Prisma Scanner, see Set up multicluster Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Store.

An example values.yaml when no other scanner integrations installed in the same dev-namespace where Prisma Scanner is installed:

#! ...
metadataStore:
  #! The URL where the Store deployment is accessible.
  #! Default value is: "https://metadata-store-app.metadata-store.svc.cluster.local:8443"
  url: "STORE-URL"
  caSecret:
    #! The name of the secret that contains the ca.crt to connect to the Store Deployment.
    #! Default value is: "app-tls-cert"
    name: "CA-SECRET-NAME"
    #! The namespace where the secrets for the Store Deployment live.
    #! Default value is: "metadata-store"
    importFromNamespace: "STORE-SECRETS-NAMESPACE"
  #! authSecret is for multicluster configurations.
  authSecret:
    #! The name of the secret that contains the auth token to authenticate to the Store Deployment.
    name: "AUTH-SECRET-NAME"
    #! The namespace where the secrets for the Store Deployment live.
    importFromNamespace: "STORE-SECRETS-NAMESPACE"

Where:

  • STORE-URL is the URL where the Store deployment is accessible.
  • CA-SECRET-NAME is the name of the secret that contains the ca.crt to connect to the Store Deployment. Default is app-tls-cert.
  • STORE-SECRETS-NAMESPACE is the namespace where the secrets for the Store Deployment live. Default is metadata-store.
  • AUTH-SECRET-NAME is the name of the secret that contains the authentication token to authenticate to the Store Deployment.
No SCST - Store integration
If you do not want to enable the SCST - Store integration, explicitly deactivate the integration by appending the following field to the values.yaml file that is enabled by default: 
# ...
metadataStore:
  url: "" # Deactivate Supply Chain Security Tools - Store integration

Prepare the ScanPolicy

To prepare the ScanPolicy, use a sample for your needs.

Sample ScanPolicy that uses Prisma policies
The following sample ScanPolicy allows you to control whether SupplyChain passes or fails based on the compliance and vulnerability rules configured in the Prisma compute console.

The policy reads the complianceScanPassed and vulnerabilityScanPassed fields returned from Prisma scanner output to control the results of the scan.

apiVersion: scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1beta1
kind: ScanPolicy
metadata:
  name: prisma-scan-policy
  labels:
    'app.kubernetes.io/part-of': 'enable-in-gui'
spec:
  regoFile: |
    package main

    import future.keywords.in

    deny[msg] {
      vulnerabilityAndComplianceScanResults := {e | e := input.bom.metadata.properties.property[_]}
      some result in vulnerabilityAndComplianceScanResults
      failedScans:= "false" in result
      failedScans
      vulnerabilityMessages := { message |
        components := {e | e := input.bom.components.component} | {e | e := input.bom.components.component[_]}
        some component in components
        vulnerabilities := {e | e := component.vulnerabilities.vulnerability} | {e | e := component.vulnerabilities.vulnerability[_]}
        some vulnerability in vulnerabilities
        ratings := {e | e := vulnerability.ratings.rating.severity} | {e | e := vulnerability.ratings.rating[_].severity}
        formattedRatings := concat(", ", ratings)
        message := sprintf("Vulnerability - Component: %s CVE: %s Severity: %s", [component.name, vulnerability.id, formattedRatings])
      }
      complianceMessages := { message |
        compliances := {e | e := input.bom.metadata.component.compliances.compliance} | {e | e := input.bom.metadata.component.compliances.compliance[_]}
        some compliance in compliances
        message := sprintf("Compliance - %s \\nId: %s Severity: %s Category: %s", [compliance.title, compliance.id, compliance.severity, compliance.category])
      }
      combinedMessages := complianceMessages | vulnerabilityMessages
      some message in combinedMessages
      msg := message
    }
Sample ScanPolicy that uses local policies
The following sample ScanPolicy allows you to control whether SupplyChain passes or fails based on the Prisma Scanner CycloneDX vulnerability results returned from Prisma Scanner. 
apiVersion: scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1beta1
kind: ScanPolicy
metadata:
  name: prisma-scan-policy
  labels:
    'app.kubernetes.io/part-of': 'enable-in-gui'
spec:
  regoFile: |
    package main

    # Accepted Values: "Critical", "High", "Medium", "Low", "Negligible", "UnknownSeverity"
    notAllowedSeverities := ["Critical", "High", "UnknownSeverity"]
    ignoreCves := []

    contains(array, elem) = true {
      array[_] = elem
    } else = false { true }

    isSafe(match) {
      severities := { e | e := match.ratings.rating.severity } | { e | e := match.ratings.rating[_].severity }
      some i
      fails := contains(notAllowedSeverities, severities[i])
      not fails
    }

    isSafe(match) {
      ignore := contains(ignoreCves, match.id)
      ignore
    }

    deny[msg] {
      comps := { e | e := input.bom.components.component } | { e | e := input.bom.components.component[_] }
      some i
      comp := comps[i]
      vulns := { e | e := comp.vulnerabilities.vulnerability } | { e | e := comp.vulnerabilities.vulnerability[_] }
      some j
      vuln := vulns[j]
      ratings := { e | e := vuln.ratings.rating.severity } | { e | e := vuln.ratings.rating[_].severity }
      not isSafe(vuln)
      msg = sprintf("CVE %s %s %s", [comp.name, vuln.id, ratings])
    }

Apply the YAML by running:

kubectl apply -n $DEV-NAMESPACE -f SCAN-POLICY-YAML-FILE

Where:

  • DEV-NAMESPACE is the name of the developer namespace you want to use.
  • SCAN-POLICY-YAML-FILE is the name of your SCST - Scan YAML file.

Install Prisma Scanner

After all prerequisites are fulfilled, install Prisma Scanner. For more information, see Install another scanner for Supply Chain Security Tools - Scan.

Configure for a self-signed registry certificate

When attempting to pull an image from a registry with a self-signed certificate during image scans additional configuration is necessary.

Use a Tanzu Application Platform values shared CA

If your tap-values.yaml used during installation has the following shared section filled out, Prisma Scanner uses this and enable it to connect to your registry without additional configuration.

shared:
   ca_cert_data: | # To be passed if using custom certificates
      -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
      MIIFXzCCA0egAwIBAgIJAJYm37SFocjlMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBDQUAMEY...
      -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Create a secret within the developer namespace

To create a secret within the developer namespace:

  1. Create a secret that holds the registry’s CA certificate data. An example of the secret:

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: prisma-registry-cert
  namespace: dev
type: Opaque
data:
  ca_cert_data: BASE64_CERT

  2. Update your Prisma Scanner installation values.yaml file. Add caCertSecret to the root of prisma-values.yaml when installing Prisma Scanner. For example:

    namespace: dev
targetImagePullSecret: tap-registry
caCertSecret: prisma-registry-cert

Connect to Prisma through a proxy

To connect to Prisma through a proxy, you must add environmentVariables configuration to prisma-values.yaml. All valid container env configurations are supported.

For example:

namespace: dev
targetImagePullSecret: tap-registry
environmentVariables:
- name: HTTP_PROXY
  value: "test.proxy.com"
- name: HTTPS_PROXY
  value: "test.proxy.com"
- name: NO_PROXY
  value: "127.0.0.1,.svc,.svc.cluster.local,demo.app"

Known limits

OpenShift is not supported.

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