How to Enable NFS scanning on a Kubernetes Cluster

In order to scan an NFS share when having MDSS deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, the share location has to be mounted in the nfsservice container as a directory in the following path: /opt/mdss/nfs/ . For example, the following values file can be applied when deploying MDSS using the helm chart.

mdss_components: nfsservice: extraVolumes: nfsTest: name: nfs-storage-unit nfs: server: <NFS_SERVER_IP> path: <PATH_EXPORTED_ON_SERVER> readOnly: no extraVolumeMounts: - name: nfs-storage-unit mountPath: /opt/mdss/nfs/<MOUNT_DIRECTORY> subPath: <SUBPATH_TO_SCAN>

This example file can also be found on our GitHub repo for k8s deployments here

After replacing the placeholders, these values can be applied when deploying MDSS:

helm install mdss <PATH_TO_HELM_CHART> -f mdss-nfs-example.yml

Notes:

Any storage unit that can be mounted as a Persistent Volume in the container can also have it's contents scanned using the NFS module
Make sure that the share is mounted with the appropriate permissions, for example, whenever remediations or CDR are configured write permissions are also required

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