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`Kubeconform` is a Kubernetes manifest validation tool. Incorporate it into your CI, or use it locally to validate your Kubernetes configuration!

It is inspired by, contains code from and is designed to stay close to
[Kubeval](https://github.com/instrumenta/kubeval), but with the following improvements:
 * **high performance**: will validate & download manifests over multiple routines, caching
   downloaded files in memory
 * configurable list of **remote, or local schemas locations**, enabling validating Kubernetes
   custom resources (CRDs) and offline validation capabilities
 * uses by default a [self-updating fork](https://github.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema) of the schemas registry maintained
   by the kubernetes-json-schema project - which guarantees
   up-to-date **schemas for all recent versions of Kubernetes**.
   
<details><summary><h4>Speed comparison with Kubeval</h4></summary><p>
Running on a pretty large kubeconfigs setup, on a laptop with 4 cores:
   
```bash
$ time kubeconform -ignore-missing-schemas -n 8 -summary  preview staging production
Summary: 50714 resources found in 35139 files - Valid: 27334, Invalid: 0, Errors: 0 Skipped: 23380
real	0m6,710s
user	0m38,701s
sys	0m1,161s
$ time kubeval -d preview,staging,production --ignore-missing-schemas --quiet
[... Skipping output]
real	0m35,336s
user	0m0,717s
sys	0m1,069s
```
</p></details>

## Table of contents

* [A small overview of Kubernetes manifest validation](#a-small-overview-of-kubernetes-manifest-validation)
  * [Limits of Kubeconform validation](#Limits-of-Kubeconform-validation)
* [Installation](#Installation)
* [Usage](#Usage)
  * [Usage examples](#Usage-examples)
  * [Proxy support](#Proxy-support)
* [Overriding schemas location](#Overriding-schemas-location)
  * [CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) Support](#CustomResourceDefinition-CRD-Support)
  * [OpenShift schema Support](#OpenShift-schema-Support)
* [Integrating Kubeconform in the CI](#Integrating-Kubeconform-in-the-CI)
  * [Github Workflow](#Github-Workflow)
  * [Gitlab-CI](#Gitlab-CI)
* [Helm charts](#helm-charts)
* [Using kubeconform as a Go Module](#Using-kubeconform-as-a-Go-Module)
* [Credits](#Credits)

## A small overview of Kubernetes manifest validation

Kubernetes's API is described using the [OpenAPI (formerly swagger) specification](https://www.openapis.org),
in a [file](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json) checked into
the main Kubernetes repository.

Because of the state of the tooling to perform validation against OpenAPI schemas, projects usually convert
the OpenAPI schemas to [JSON schemas](https://json-schema.org/) first. Kubeval relies on
[instrumenta/OpenApi2JsonSchema](https://github.com/instrumenta/openapi2jsonschema) to convert Kubernetes' Swagger file
and break it down into multiple JSON schemas, stored in github at
[instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema](https://github.com/instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema) and published on
[kubernetesjsonschema.dev](https://kubernetesjsonschema.dev/).

`Kubeconform` relies on [a fork of kubernetes-json-schema](https://github.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema/)
that is more meticulously kept up-to-date, and contains schemas for all recent versions of Kubernetes.

### Limits of Kubeconform validation

`Kubeconform`, similar to `kubeval`, only validates manifests using the official Kubernetes OpenAPI specifications. The Kubernetes controllers still perform additional server-side validations that are not part of the OpenAPI specifications. Those server-side validations are not covered by `Kubeconform` (examples: [#65](https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/issues/65), [#122](https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/issues/122), [#142](https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/issues/142)). You can use a 3rd-party tool or the `kubectl --dry-run=server` command to fill the missing (validation) gap.

## Installation

If you are a [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) user, you can install by running:

```bash
$ brew install kubeconform
```

If you are a Windows user, you can install with [winget](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/) by running:

```cmd
winget install YannHamon.kubeconform
```

You can also download the latest version from the [release page](https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/releases).

Another way of installation is via Golang's package manager:

```bash
# With a specific version tag
$ go install github.com/yannh/kubeconform/cmd/kubeconform@v0.4.13

# Latest version
$ go install github.com/yannh/kubeconform/cmd/kubeconform@latest
```

## Usage

```
$ kubeconform -h
Usage: kubeconform [OPTION]... [FILE OR FOLDER]...
  -cache string
    	cache schemas downloaded via HTTP to this folder
  -debug
    	print debug information
  -exit-on-error
    	immediately stop execution when the first error is encountered
  -h	show help information
  -ignore-filename-pattern value
    	regular expression specifying paths to ignore (can be specified multiple times)
  -ignore-missing-schemas
    	skip files with missing schemas instead of failing
  -insecure-skip-tls-verify
    	disable verification of the server's SSL certificate. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
  -kubernetes-version string
    	version of Kubernetes to validate against, e.g.: 1.18.0 (default "master")
  -n int
    	number of goroutines to run concurrently (default 4)
  -output string
    	output format - json, junit, pretty, tap, text (default "text")
  -reject string
    	comma-separated list of kinds or GVKs to reject
  -schema-location value
    	override schemas location search path (can be specified multiple times)
  -skip string
    	comma-separated list of kinds or GVKs to ignore
  -strict
    	disallow additional properties not in schema or duplicated keys
  -summary
    	print a summary at the end (ignored for junit output)
  -v	show version information
  -verbose
    	print results for all resources (ignored for tap and junit output)
```

### Usage examples

* Validating a single, valid file
```bash
$ kubeconform fixtures/valid.yaml
$ echo $?
0
```

* Validating a single invalid file, setting output to json, and printing a summary
```bash
$ kubeconform -summary -output json fixtures/invalid.yaml
{
  "resources": [
    {
      "filename": "fixtures/invalid.yaml",
      "kind": "ReplicationController",
      "version": "v1",
      "status": "INVALID",
      "msg": "Additional property templates is not allowed - Invalid type. Expected: [integer,null], given: string"
    }
  ],
  "summary": {
    "valid": 0,
    "invalid": 1,
    "errors": 0,
    "skipped": 0
  }
}
$ echo $?
1
```

* Passing manifests via Stdin
```bash
cat fixtures/valid.yaml  | ./bin/kubeconform -summary
Summary: 1 resource found parsing stdin - Valid: 1, Invalid: 0, Errors: 0 Skipped: 0
```

* Validating a file, ignoring its resource using both Kind, and GVK (Group, Version, Kind) notations
```
# This will ignore ReplicationController for all apiVersions
$ kubeconform -summary -skip ReplicationController fixtures/valid.yaml
Summary: 1 resource found in 1 file - Valid: 0, Invalid: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 1

# This will ignore ReplicationController only for apiVersion v1
$ kubeconform -summary -skip v1/ReplicationController fixtures/valid.yaml
Summary: 1 resource found in 1 file - Valid: 0, Invalid: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 1
```

* Validating a folder, increasing the number of parallel workers
```
$ kubeconform -summary -n 16 fixtures
fixtures/crd_schema.yaml - CustomResourceDefinition trainingjobs.sagemaker.aws.amazon.com failed validation: could not find schema for CustomResourceDefinition
fixtures/invalid.yaml - ReplicationController bob is invalid: Invalid type. Expected: [integer,null], given: string
[...]
Summary: 65 resources found in 34 files - Valid: 55, Invalid: 2, Errors: 8 Skipped: 0
```

### Proxy support

`Kubeconform` will respect the **HTTPS_PROXY** variable when downloading schema files.

```bash
$ HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.local bin/kubeconform fixtures/valid.yaml
```

## Overriding schemas location

When the `-schema-location` parameter is not used, or set to `default`, kubeconform will default to downloading
schemas from https://github.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema. Kubeconform however supports passing one, or multiple,
schemas locations - HTTP(s) URLs, or local filesystem paths, in which case it will lookup for schema definitions
in each of them, in order, stopping as soon as a matching file is found.

 * If the `-schema-location` value does not end with `.json`, Kubeconform will assume filenames / a file
 structure identical to that of [kubernetesjsonschema.dev](https://kubernetesjsonschema.dev/) or [yannh/kubernetes-json-schema](https://github.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema).
 * if the `-schema-location` value ends with `.json` - Kubeconform assumes the value is a **Go templated
 string** that indicates how to search for JSON schemas.
* the `-schema-location` value of `default` is an alias for `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema/master/{{.NormalizedKubernetesVersion}}-standalone{{.StrictSuffix}}/{{.ResourceKind}}{{.KindSuffix}}.json`.

**The following command lines are equivalent:**
```bash
$ kubeconform fixtures/valid.yaml
$ kubeconform -schema-location default fixtures/valid.yaml
$ kubeconform -schema-location 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yannh/kubernetes-json-schema/master/{{.NormalizedKubernetesVersion}}-standalone{{.StrictSuffix}}/{{.ResourceKind}}{{.KindSuffix}}.json' fixtures/valid.yaml
```
Here are the variables you can use in -schema-location:
 * *NormalizedKubernetesVersion* - Kubernetes Version, prefixed by v
 * *StrictSuffix* - "-strict" or "" depending on whether validation is running in strict mode or not
 * *ResourceKind* - Kind of the Kubernetes Resource
 * *ResourceAPIVersion* - Version of API used for the resource - "v1" in "apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1"
 * *Group* - the group name as stated in this resource's definition - "monitoring.coreos.com" in "apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1"
 * *KindSuffix* - suffix computed from apiVersion - for compatibility with `Kubeval` schema registries

### CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) Support

Because Custom Resources (CR) are not native Kubernetes objects, they are not included in the default schema.  
If your CRs are present in [Datree's CRDs-catalog](https://github.com/datreeio/CRDs-catalog), you can specify this project as an additional registry to lookup:
  
```bash
# Look in the CRDs-catalog for the desired schema/s
$ kubeconform -schema-location default -schema-location 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datreeio/CRDs-catalog/main/{{.Group}}/{{.ResourceKind}}_{{.ResourceAPIVersion}}.json' [MANIFEST]
```

If your CRs are not present in the CRDs-catalog, you will need to manually pull the CRDs manifests from your cluster and convert the `OpenAPI.spec` to JSON schema format.

<details><summary>Converting an OpenAPI file to a JSON Schema</summary>
<p>

`Kubeconform` uses JSON schemas to validate Kubernetes resources. For Custom Resource, the CustomResourceDefinition
first needs to be converted to JSON Schema. A Go tool is provided to convert these CustomResourceDefinitions
to JSON schema. Build it from the [openapi2jsonschema-go/](openapi2jsonschema-go/) directory and use it as follows:

```bash
$ cd openapi2jsonschema-go && make local-build
$ ./bin/openapi2jsonschema https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-sagemaker-operator-for-k8s/master/config/crd/bases/sagemaker.aws.amazon.com_trainingjobs.yaml
JSON schema written to trainingjob_v1.json
```

By default, the file name output format is `{kind}_{version}`. The `FILENAME_FORMAT` environment variable can be used to change the output file name (Available variables: `kind`, `group`, `fullgroup`, `version`):

```
$ export FILENAME_FORMAT='{kind}-{group}-{version}'
$ ./bin/openapi2jsonschema https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-sagemaker-operator-for-k8s/master/config/crd/bases/sagemaker.aws.amazon.com_trainingjobs.yaml
JSON schema written to trainingjob-sagemaker-v1.json

$ export FILENAME_FORMAT='{kind}-{fullgroup}-{version}'
$ ./bin/openapi2jsonschema https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-sagemaker-operator-for-k8s/master/config/crd/bases/sagemaker.aws.amazon.com_trainingjobs.yaml
JSON schema written to trainingjob-sagemaker.aws.amazon.com-v1.json
```

After converting your CRDs to JSON schema files, you can use `kubeconform` to validate your CRs against them:

```
# If the resource Kind is not found in default, also lookup in the schemas/ folder for a matching file
$ kubeconform -schema-location default -schema-location 'schemas/{{ .ResourceKind }}{{ .KindSuffix }}.json' fixtures/custom-resource.yaml
```

ℹ️ Datree's [CRD Extractor](https://github.com/datreeio/CRDs-catalog#crd-extractor) is a utility that can be used instead of this manual process.

</p>
</details>

### OpenShift schema Support

You can validate Openshift manifests using a custom schema location. Set the OpenShift version (v3.10.0-4.1.0) to validate
against using `-kubernetes-version`.

```
kubeconform -kubernetes-version 3.8.0  -schema-location 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/garethr/openshift-json-schema/master/{{ .NormalizedKubernetesVersion }}-standalone{{ .StrictSuffix }}/{{ .ResourceKind }}.json'  -summary fixtures/valid.yaml
Summary: 1 resource found in 1 file - Valid: 1, Invalid: 0, Errors: 0 Skipped: 0
```

## Integrating Kubeconform in the CI

`Kubeconform` publishes Docker Images to Github's new Container Registry (ghcr.io). These images
can be used directly in a Github Action, once logged in using a [_Github Token_](https://github.blog/changelog/2021-03-24-packages-container-registry-now-supports-github_token/).

### Github Workflow

Example:
```yaml
name: kubeconform
on: push
jobs:
  kubeconform:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: login to Github Packages
        run: echo "${{ github.token }}" | docker login https://ghcr.io -u ${GITHUB_ACTOR} --password-stdin
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: docker://ghcr.io/yannh/kubeconform:latest
        with:
          entrypoint: '/kubeconform'
          args: "-summary -output json kubeconfigs/"
```

_Note on pricing_: Kubeconform relies on Github Container Registry which is currently in Beta. During that period,
[bandwidth is free](https://docs.github.com/en/packages/guides/about-github-container-registry). After that period,
bandwidth costs might be applicable. Since bandwidth from Github Packages within Github Actions is free, I expect
Github Container Registry to also be usable for free within Github Actions in the future. If that were not to be the
case, I might publish the Docker image to a different platform.

### Gitlab-CI

The Kubeconform Docker image can be used in Gitlab-CI. Here is an example of a Gitlab-CI job:

```yaml
lint-kubeconform:
  stage: validate
  image:
    name: ghcr.io/yannh/kubeconform:latest-alpine
    entrypoint: [""]
  script:
  - /kubeconform -summary -output json kubeconfigs/
```

See [issue 106](https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform/issues/106) for more details.

## Helm charts

There is a 3rd party [repository](https://github.com/jtyr/kubeconform-helm) that
allows to use `kubeconform` to test [Helm charts](https://helm.sh) in the form of
a [Helm plugin](https://helm.sh/docs/topics/plugins/) and [`pre-commit`
hook](https://pre-commit.com/).

## Using kubeconform as a Go Module

**Warning**: This is a work-in-progress, the interface is not yet considered stable. Feedback is encouraged.

`Kubeconform` contains a package that can be used as a library.
An example of usage can be found in [examples/main.go](examples/main.go)

Additional documentation on [pkg.go.dev](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/yannh/kubeconform/pkg/validator)

## Credits

 * @garethr for the [Kubeval](https://github.com/instrumenta/kubeval) and
 [kubernetes-json-schema](https://github.com/instrumenta/kubernetes-json-schema) projects ❤️
