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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • kubelet - Enable Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Client Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Protect Kernel Defaults

    Protect tuned kernel parameters from being overwritten by the kubelet.

    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Do Not Disable Streaming Timeouts

    Timouts for streaming connections should not be disabled as they help to prevent denial-of-service attacks. To configure streaming connection timeo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Do Not Disable Streaming Timeouts

    Timeouts for streaming connections should not be disabled as they help to prevent denial-of-service attacks. To configure streaming connection time...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Ensure that the --read-only-port is secured

    Disable the read-only port.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift - Logging Settings

    Contains evaluations for the cluster's logging configuration settings.
    Group
  • Configure the OpenShift Audit Profile

    Audit log profiles define how to log requests that come to the OpenShift API server, the Kubernetes API server, and the OAuth API server.
    Value
  • Ensure Audit Logging is Enabled

    The audit logs are part of the EKS managed Kubernetes control plane logs that are managed by Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS is integrated with AWS CloudTra...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Kubernetes - Network Configuration and Firewalls

    Most systems must be connected to a network of some sort, and this brings with it the substantial risk of network attack. This section discusses th...
    Group

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