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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Verify Group Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the group owner of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chgrp root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the owner of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the owner of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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  • Verify Permissions on The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Verify Permissions on the Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the permissions of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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  • kubelet - Allow Automatic Firewall Configuration

    The kubelet has the ability to automatically configure the firewall to allow the containers required ports and connections to networking resources and destinations parameters potentially creating a...
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  • kubelet - Enable Server Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate server certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter:...
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  • Verify Group Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the group owner of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chgrp root /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Disable Anonymous Authentication to the Kubelet

    By default, anonymous access to the Kubelet server is enabled. This configuration check ensures that anonymous requests to the Kubelet server are disabled. Edit the Kubelet server configuration fil...
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  • Ensure authorization is set to Webhook

    Unauthenticated/unauthorized users should have no access to OpenShift nodes. The Kubelet should be set to only allow Webhook authorization. To ensure that the Kubelet requires authorization, valida...
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