k8s-lint

name	k8s-lint
description	Kubernetes YAML validation - Use kube-linter and kubeconform to check K8s config security and best practices

Kubernetes Lint Skill

📋 Overview

This skill uses kube-linter and kubeconform for dual validation of Kubernetes YAML configurations, ensuring:

• 🔒 Security (RBAC, Pod Security, NetworkPolicy)
• ✅ Schema validation (K8s API spec compliance)
• ⚡ Resource limit configuration
• 🛡️ Best practices compliance

🔧 Prerequisites

Tool	Purpose	Windows	Linux/Mac
kube-linter	Best practices check	scoop install kube-linter	brew install kube-linter
kubeconform	Schema validation	scoop install kubeconform	brew install kubeconform
kubectl	(Optional) Cluster validation	scoop install kubectl	brew install kubectl

🚀 Usage

Check single file:

# Windows
.\.agents\skills\k8s-lint\scripts\lint.ps1 -File deployment.yaml

# Linux/Mac
./agent/skills/k8s-lint/scripts/lint.sh deployment.yaml

Check entire directory:

# Windows  
.\.agents\skills\k8s-lint\scripts\lint.ps1 -Path .\k8s -Recursive

# Linux/Mac
./.agents/skills/k8s-lint/scripts/lint.sh -r k8s/

🎯 What It Checks

Security Checks

• ✅ Prohibit privileged containers
• ✅ Prohibit hostNetwork/hostPID
• ✅ Require readOnlyRootFilesystem
• ✅ Run as non-root user
• ✅ Capabilities whitelist

Resource Management

• ✅ CPU/Memory limits set
• ✅ liveness/readiness probes
• ✅ Pod Disruption Budget
• ✅ HPA configuration check

Best Practices

• ✅ Image pull policy
• ✅ Don't use latest tag
• ✅ Service Account configuration
• ✅ Label/Annotation standards

📊 Output Example

☸️  Kubernetes Lint - Checking config files...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔍 Schema Validation (kubeconform)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ deployment.yaml - valid
✅ service.yaml - valid
❌ ingress.yaml - invalid: Missing required field: spec.rules

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🛡️  Best Practices Check (kube-linter)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

deployment.yaml: (object: <no namespace>/nginx-deployment apps/v1, Kind=Deployment)
    ⚠️  no-read-only-root-fs: Container "nginx" does not have a read-only root file system
    ❌ cpu-requirements: Container "nginx" has no CPU limits
    ❌ memory-requirements: Container "nginx" has no memory limits

📊 Check Results:
   ❌ Errors: 3
   ⚠️  Warnings: 1

⚙️ Configuration

Create .kube-linter.yaml:

checks:
  exclude:
    - no-read-only-root-fs  # Temporarily allow writable root filesystem
  
  include:
    - cpu-requirements
    - memory-requirements
    - privileged-containers
    - run-as-non-root

customChecks: []

🔗 Related Resources

• kube-linter Documentation
• Kubernetes Best Practices