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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure that application Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
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  • Ensure Network Policy is Enabled

    Use Network Policy to restrict pod to pod traffic within a cluster and segregate workloads.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Encrypt Traffic to Load Balancers and Workloads

    Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers using TLS certificates.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint

    Enable Endpoint Private Access to restrict access to the cluster's control plane to only an allowlist of authorized IPs.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Ensure Private Endpoint Access

    Disable access to the Kubernetes API from outside the node network if it is not required.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Ensure Cluster Private Nodes

    Disable public IP addresses for cluster nodes, so that they only have private IP addresses. Private Nodes are nodes with no public IP addresses.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Kubernetes - Registry Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for Kubernetes registry security practices, and cluster-wide registry configuration.
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  • Only use approved container registries

    Use approved container registries.
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  • Ensure Image Vulnerability Scanning

    Scan images being deployed to Amazon EKS for vulnerabilities.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Ensure Cluster Service Account with read-only access to Amazon ECR

    Configure the Cluster Service Account with Storage Object Viewer Role to only allow read- only access to Amazon ECR.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Minimize user access to Amazon ECR

    Restrict user access to Amazon ECR, limiting interaction with build images to only authorized personnel and service accounts.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Kubernetes Secrets Management

    Secrets let you store and manage sensitive information, such as passwords, OAuth tokens, and ssh keys. Such information might otherwise be put in a...
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  • Ensure Kubernetes Secrets are Encrypted

    Encrypt Kubernetes secrets, stored in etcd, using secrets encryption feature during Amazon EKS cluster creation.
    Rule Unknown Severity
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  • Kubernetes - Worker Node Settings

    Contains evaluations for the worker node configuration settings.
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  • Verify Group Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the group owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chgrp root /etc/kubernet...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Verify Group Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the group owner of <code>/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chgrp root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/kub...
    Rule Medium Severity
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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
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Verify Permissions on The Kubelet Configuration File

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

    To properly set the permissions of <code>/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chmod 0644 /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig</...
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