Remove setcap and use authbind instead

Makefile

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ IMAGE = $(REGISTRY)/$(IMGNAME)
 MULTI_ARCH_IMG = $(IMAGE)-$(ARCH)
 
 # Set default base image dynamically for each arch
-BASEIMAGE?=quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-$(ARCH):0.54
+BASEIMAGE?=quay.io/kubernetes-ingress-controller/nginx-$(ARCH):0.55
 
 ifeq ($(ARCH),arm)
 	QEMUARCH=arm

rootfs/Dockerfile

@@ -25,35 +25,6 @@ RUN clean-install \
 
 COPY . /
 
-# Create symlinks to redirect nginx logs to stdout and stderr docker log collector
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
-# This only works if nginx is started with CMD or ENTRYPOINT
-# Required because clean-install removes /var/log content
-# We cannot chown /etc/nginx recursively because that adds 100MB to the image
-RUN  mkdir -p /var/log/nginx \
-  && ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/nginx/access.log \
-  && ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/nginx/error.log \
-  && bash -eux -c ' \
-    writeDirs=( \
-      /etc/nginx/template \
-      /etc/ingress-controller/ssl \
-      /etc/ingress-controller/auth \
-      /var/log \
-      /var/log/nginx \
-    ); \
-    for dir in "${writeDirs[@]}"; do \
-      mkdir -p ${dir}; \
-      chown -R www-data.www-data ${dir}; \
-    done \
-    ' \
-  && chown www-data.www-data /etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
-  && chown www-data.www-data /etc/nginx/opentracing.json
-
-RUN  setcap    cap_net_bind_service=+ep /nginx-ingress-controller \
-  && setcap -v cap_net_bind_service=+ep /nginx-ingress-controller
-
-USER www-data
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/dumb-init"]
 
 CMD ["/nginx-ingress-controller"]
-

rootfs/entrypoint.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/usr/bin/dumb-init /bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -e
+
+mkdir -p /var/log/nginx
+echo 0 > /tmp/nginx.pid
+writeDirs=( \
+    /etc/nginx/template \
+    /etc/ingress-controller/ssl \
+    /etc/ingress-controller/auth \
+    /var/log \
+    /var/log/nginx \
+    /tmp \
+);
+
+for dir in "${writeDirs[@]}"; do
+    mkdir -p ${dir};
+    chown -R www-data.www-data ${dir};
+done
+
+ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/nginx/access.log
+ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/nginx/error.log
+
+chown www-data.www-data /var/log/nginx/*
+chown www-data.www-data /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+chown www-data.www-data /etc/nginx/opentracing.json
+chown www-data.www-data /etc/nginx
+
+echo "Testing if setcap is supported..."
+if test 'setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/sbin/nginx'; then
+    echo "setcap is supported. Setting cap_net_bind_service=+ep to allow binding port lower than 1024 as non-root"
+    setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep    /usr/sbin/nginx
+    setcap -v cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/sbin/nginx
+    setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep    /nginx-ingress-controller
+    setcap -v cap_net_bind_service=+ep /nginx-ingress-controller
+
+    echo "Droping root privileges and running as user..."
+    su-exec www-data:www-data "$@"
+else
+    echo "WARNING!!!: setcap is not supported. Running as root"
+    echo "Please check https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/1070"
+    "$@"
+fi

test/manifests/ingress-controller/mandatory.yaml

@@ -251,14 +251,6 @@ spec:
             - --publish-service=$(POD_NAMESPACE)/ingress-nginx
             - --annotations-prefix=nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io
             - --watch-namespace=${NAMESPACE}
-          securityContext:
-            capabilities:
-                drop:
-                - ALL
-                add:
-                - NET_BIND_SERVICE
-            # www-data -> 33
-            runAsUser: 33
           env:
             - name: POD_NAME
               valueFrom: