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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

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  • Kubernetes - Account and Access Control

    In traditional Unix security, if an attacker gains shell access to a certain login account, they can perform any action or access any file to which...
    Group
  • Use Dedicated Service Accounts

    Kubernetes workloads should not use cluster node service accounts to authenticate to Amazon EKS APIs. Each Kubernetes workload that needs to authen...
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  • Authentication

    In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be...
    Group
  • OAuth Clients Token Inactivity Timeout

    Enter OAuth Clients Token Inactivity Timeout in Seconds
    Value
  • OAuth Token Inactivity Timeout

    Enter OAuth Token Inactivity Timeout
    Value
  • Manage Users with AWS IAM

    Amazon EKS uses IAM to provide authentication to your Kubernetes cluster through the AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes. You can configure the st...
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  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
    Group
  • Consider Fargate for Untrusted Workloads

    It is Best Practice to restrict or fence untrusted workloads when running in a multi-tenant environment.
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  • Kubernetes Kubelet Settings

    The Kubernetes Kubelet is an agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are running in a pod. The kubelet takes a ...
    Group
  • Configure Kubelet Event Limit

    Maximum event creations per second.
    Value

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