Enforce a Tetragon TracingPolicy that sends SIGKILL to a process matching a selector using the Sigkill action
domain: tetragon.io · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Author a TracingPolicy with a kprobe or tracepoint hook on the kernel function you want to enforce at
Under the spec.kprobes[].selectors list, add a selector with the desired matchArgs, matchBinaries, or matchCapabilities conditions
Inside that selector's matchActions list, add an entry with action: Sigkill
Apply the policy with kubectl apply -f enforce-policy.yaml
Trigger the matching condition in a test process and confirm the process is terminated by checking its exit reason or observing the SIGKILL in Tetragon events
Review tetra getevents output to see process_kprobe events with the action field reflecting enforcement
Known gotchas
Sigkill terminates the entire process that triggered the matched hook, not just the offending syscall; use Override (return an error code) instead when you want to block the operation without killing the process
Enforcement policies take effect immediately on all nodes after kubectl apply; test in a non-production namespace or with a restrictive matchNamespaces selector first
Tetragon's enforcement operates in the kernel via eBPF; any bug in the selector logic can cause unintended process termination, so validate selectors with observe-only policies before adding Sigkill
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