Deep packet inspection

A deep packet inspection resource (DeepPacketInspection) represents live network traffic monitor for malicious activities by analyzing header and payload of the packet using specific rules. Malicious activities are added to the “Alerts” page in Calico Cloud Manager.

For kubectl commands, the following case-insensitive aliases can be used to specify the resource type on the CLI: deeppacketinspection,deeppacketinspections, deeppacketinspection.projectcalico.org, deeppacketinspections.projectcalico.org as well as abbreviations such as deeppacketinspection.p and deeppacketinspections.p.

Sample YAML

apiVersion: projectcalico.org/v3
kind: DeepPacketInspection
metadata:
  name: sample-dpi
  namespace: sample-namespace
spec:
  selector: k8s-app == "sample-app"

DeepPacketInspection definition

Metadata

Field	Description	Accepted Values	Schema	Default
name	The name of the deep packet inspection. Required.	Alphanumeric string with optional ., _, or -.	string
namespace	Namespace provides an additional qualification to a resource name.		string	"default"

Spec

Field	Description	Accepted Values	Schema	Default
selector	Selects the endpoints to which this deep packet inspection applies.		selector

Status

Field	Description
nodes	List of Nodes.

Nodes

Field	Description
node	Name of the node that generated this status.
active	Active status.
errorConditions	List of errors.

Active

Field	Description
success	Whether the deep packet inspection is active on the backend.
lastUpdated	Time when the active field was updated.

Error Conditions

Field	Description
message	Errors preventing deep packet inspection from running successfully.
lastUpdated	Time when the error was updated.

Selector

A label selector is an expression which either matches or does not match a resource based on its labels.

Calico Cloud label selectors support a number of operators, which can be combined into larger expressions using the boolean operators and parentheses.

Expression	Meaning
Logical operators
( <expression> )	Matches if and only if <expression> matches. (Parentheses are used for grouping expressions.)
! <expression>	Matches if and only if <expression> does not match. Tip: ! is a special character at the start of a YAML string, if you need to use ! at the start of a YAML string, enclose the string in quotes.
<expression 1> && <expression 2>	"And": matches if and only if both <expression 1>, and, <expression 2> matches
\<expression 1> || \<expression 2>	"Or": matches if and only if either <expression 1>, or, <expression 2> matches.
Match operators
all()	Match all in-scope resources. To match no resources, combine this operator with ! to form !all().
global()	Match all non-namespaced resources. Useful in a namespaceSelector to select global resources such as global network sets.
k == 'v'	Matches resources with the label 'k' and value 'v'.
k != 'v'	Matches resources without label 'k' or with label 'k' and value not equal to v
has(k)	Matches resources with label 'k', independent of value. To match pods that do not have label k, combine this operator with ! to form !has(k)
k in { 'v1', 'v2' }	Matches resources with label 'k' and value in the given set
k not in { 'v1', 'v2' }	Matches resources without label 'k' or with label 'k' and value not in the given set
k contains 's'	Matches resources with label 'k' and value containing the substring 's'
k starts with 's'	Matches resources with label 'k' and value starting with the substring 's'
k ends with 's'	Matches resources with label 'k' and value ending with the substring 's'

Operators have the following precedence:

• Highest: all the match operators
• Parentheses ( ... )
• Negation with !
• Conjunction with &&
• Lowest: Disjunction with ||

For example, the expression

! has(my-label) || my-label starts with 'prod' && role in {'frontend','business'}

Would be "bracketed" like this:

((!(has(my-label)) || ((my-label starts with 'prod') && (role in {'frontend','business'}))

It would match:

• Any resource that did not have label "my-label".
• Any resource that both:
  • Has a value for my-label that starts with "prod", and,
  • Has a role label with value either "frontend", or "business".