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Summary

Implements context-based rule filtering so that rules are only evaluated against events from matching contexts (Kubernetes, Host, Standalone, ECS, Container), reducing unnecessary rule processing.

Previously, all registered rules were evaluated for every event regardless of context. This PR introduces a context: tag convention on rules and filters them at both the retrieval and per-rule evaluation stages.

Resolves the TODO: rule filtering based on context in rule_manager.go.

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Core matching logic

  • New file: rulecreator/context_match.go — Adds RuleMatchesContext() as the single source of truth for context-based matching. Rules are matched via context:<name> tags with the following semantics:
    • Exact match: context:host matches Host, context:kubernetes matches Kubernetes, etc.
    • Meta-tag: context:container matches all container-type contexts (Kubernetes, Standalone, ECS, Container) but not Host.
    • Backward compatibility: rules with no context tags default to Kubernetes-only.
    • Multi-tag: rules can have multiple context: tags.

Integration in rule_manager.go

  • Non-K8s contexts now retrieve rules via CreateRulesForContext() instead of pod-based bindings.
  • Per-rule RuleAppliesToContext() check added inside the evaluation loop as a safety net.

Interface & plumbing

  • ruleengine_interface.go — Added CreateRulesForContext(ctx) to the RuleCreator interface.
  • factory.go — Implemented CreateRulesForContext() on RuleCreatorImpl, filtering via RuleMatchesContext and initializing prefilters.
  • ruleengine_mock.go — Mock implementation using the same RuleMatchesContext logic.
  • rulepolicy.go — Simplified RuleAppliesToContext() to a thin bridge: resolves nil context to Kubernetes, then delegates to RuleMatchesContext.

Tests (4 new test files, ~40 test cases)

  • context_match_test.go — 20 cases covering exact match, meta-tag, backward compat, multi-tag, mixed tags.
  • factory_context_test.go — Table-driven tests for CreateRulesForContext across all 5 contexts, plus edge cases (empty rules, no match, prefilter init, consistency with RuleMatchesContext).
  • rulepolicy_test.go — 11 cases for RuleAppliesToContext including nil contextInfo handling.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Rules are now selected according to the event source context, improving behavior across Kubernetes, host, standalone, ECS, and container environments.
    • Untagged rules continue to apply only to Kubernetes events.
    • Container-context rules now match all supported container-related event sources consistently.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for context-based rule matching and filtering across supported environments.

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The change centralizes rule context matching, adds context-filtered rule creation, initializes missing prefilters, and uses scoped rules for non-Kubernetes event processing. Policy evaluation now uses the shared matcher.

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Context-scoped rule selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Centralized context matching
pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/context_match.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/context_match_test.go
RuleMatchesContext matches exact context tags, supports container compatibility, and defaults untagged rules to Kubernetes. Table-driven tests cover supported and rejected contexts.
Context-filtered rule creation
pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/factory.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/ruleengine_interface.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/ruleengine_mock.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/factory_context_test.go
RuleCreator and its implementations expose CreateRulesForContext. The factory filters rules and initializes missing prefilters. Tests cover filtering, empty results, prefilters, and matcher consistency.
Runtime integration and policy reuse
pkg/rulemanager/rule_manager.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulepolicy.go, pkg/rulemanager/rulepolicy_test.go
Non-Kubernetes event processing retrieves context-scoped rules. RuleAppliesToContext delegates matching to RuleMatchesContext. Tests cover nil, host, standalone, ECS, Kubernetes, and container contexts.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2b118

Context-based rule retrieval now lazily initializes rule prefilters, but concurrent event processing or rule updates can race during that initialization and cause inconsistent behavior. Merge should wait until the shared rule state is properly synchronized.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ReportEnrichedEvent
  participant RuleCreator
  participant RuleMatchesContext
  ReportEnrichedEvent->>RuleCreator: CreateRulesForContext(event context)
  RuleCreator->>RuleMatchesContext: Match each rule
  RuleMatchesContext-->>RuleCreator: Return matching rules
  RuleCreator-->>ReportEnrichedEvent: Return context-scoped rules
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In `@pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/factory.go`:
- Around line 105-114: Protect rule collection access in CreateRulesForContext
and CreateAllRules with r.mutex while iterating rules and lazily initializing
Prefilter, including synchronization with dynamic rule updates. Preserve each
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Comment thread pkg/rulemanager/rulecreator/factory.go
Signed-off-by: Khuswant Rajpurohit <khuswantrajpurohit18@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Khuswant Rajpurohit <khuswantrajpurohit18@gmail.com>
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khuswant18 force-pushed the rule-filtering-based-on-context branch from 45f3a48 to 6d7406d Compare August 21, 2026 21:52

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Reviewed the context-based rule filtering change.

  • RuleMatchesContext correctly consolidates the exact/meta-tag/backward-compat matching logic that previously lived only in rulepolicy.go; rulepolicy.go and the new CreateRulesForContext both delegate to it, so there's a single source of truth.
  • Verified the matching semantics against contextdetection.EventSourceContext (kubernetes/host/standalone/container/ecs): exact tag match, context:container meta-tag covering all container-type contexts but not host, and untagged rules defaulting to Kubernetes-only — all consistent with the pre-existing behavior in rulepolicy.go and well covered by the new table-driven tests.
  • The K8s hot path (ListRulesForPod) is untouched; only non-K8s contexts now go through CreateRulesForContext, so this doesn't add lock contention to the primary event path.
  • The data race CodeRabbit flagged (Prefilter lazily written without holding r.mutex in CreateRulesForContext/CreateAllRules) was already fixed in commit 6d7406d — both methods now take r.mutex.Lock() consistent with the other mutators in factory.go.
  • CI (CodeQL + full component-tests suite) is green.

No blockers. Approving.

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matthyx merged commit de4676b into kubescape:main Aug 22, 2026
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