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Description

This example show how you can use the container labels to discover the containers you want to protect.

This example contains multiple containers :

  • app : Tiny Go webserver that prints OS information and HTTP request to output.
  • reverse-proxy : nginx that serving this app from the host
  • crowdsec : it will read reverse-proxy logs from the socket
  • socket-proxy: Nginx container that will expose container socket over TCP instead of mounting the socket directly into CrowdSec container

Attribution to linux server team for the docker-socket-proxy container.

Prerequisites: Docker / Docker Compose

container-labels

Example above shows the docker socket mounted to the Socket-Proxy container. This is best practice and should be used instead of mounting the socket directly into the CrowdSec container.

How does this setup work?

CrowdSec container will request from the socket-proxy the running container information. If the running containers contains the label crowdsec.enable=true and crowdsec.labels.type=<type> it will be added to the CrowdSec configuration without having to specify the container name or regex. This is useful when running in a dynamic environment where containers are created and destroyed frequently.

Testing Discovery with Labels

To test the discovery with labels, you can run the following command:

docker compose -f docker-compose-crowdsec.yml up  -d

This will start the following containers:

  • crowdsec
  • socket-proxy

You can check the logs of the crowdsec container to see the logs being processed:

docker compose logs -f crowdsec

You should see the docker source manager has been started

crowdsec-1    | time="2024-06-10T07:49:46Z" level=info msg="Starting docker acquisition" type=docker
crowdsec-1    | time="2024-06-10T07:49:46Z" level=info msg="Container watcher started, interval: 10s" type=docker
crowdsec-1    | time="2024-06-10T07:49:46Z" level=info msg="DockerSource Manager started" type=docker

You can then bring up the app and reverse-proxy containers:

docker compose -f docker-compose-app.yml up -d

This will start the following containers:

  • app
  • reverse-proxy

You should see the discovery of the reverse proxy containers:

crowdsec-1    | time="2024-06-10T07:50:46Z" level=info msg="start tail for container /container-labels-reverse-proxy-1" container_name=/container-labels-reverse-proxy-1 type=docker

This means the CrowdSec container configuration did not need to be altered to discover the new container since the labels were set on creation. This works for all applications that are containerized and can be used to protect them without having to alter the CrowdSec configuration.