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Workspace Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 27, 2025

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we use Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes on top of our RHOCP environment, and we're looking for an alternative to netcat which is used in the liveness probes by Kafka in BAI functionality

To summarize our observations and the joint session findings:

  • The Zookeeper container includes the Netcat binary, and it actively uses Netcat to discover other Zookeeper pods during startup.
  • ACS detects this behavior and kills the pod, which prevents our application from functioning properly.
  • During the session, it was eventually acknowledged that Netcat is indeed installed and used in the Zookeeper pod.
  • Our organizational policy prohibits the use of Netcat in containers, and we cannot maintain a long-term exception.

Given the above, we are requesting that the IBM team:

  1. To please provide a roadmap or alternative mechanism for Zookeeper peer discovery that does not rely on Netcat, or
  2. The possibility to remove Netcat entirely from the Zookeeper pod image and offer a supported, secure alternative.

We understand that this may require extra investigations on your side, and we are happy to hear that we are on the same page by stating the issue doesn't make sense, but it is essential to align the product’s behavior with industry-standard security practices and compliance requirements.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Jun 27, 2025

    As stated in case: TS019230384. The detection of Netcat appears to be part of the standard policy set provided by Red Hat for OpenShift, and not part of our organizational policy (like stated earlier).

    While we understand IBM's position that the usage of Netcat is part of the current product behavior, this is in direct conflict with security standards and Red Hat's standard ACS  policy, which flags Netcat as a security risk. ACS actively prevents the Zookeeper pod from running due to the presence and attempted use of Netcat, as described in the summary of this idea.

    Our organization's security doesn't make any exception on the standard policies provided by Red Hat.

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