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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure Usage of Unique Service Accounts

    Using the <code>default</code> service account prevents accurate application rights review and audit tracing. Instead of <code>default</code>, crea...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift Kube API Server

    This section contains recommendations for kube-apiserver configuration.
    Group
  • API Server Request Timeout

    Enter API Server Request Timeout
    Value
  • API Server audit log max size

    API Server audit log max size
    Value
  • Bind Address of secure API endpoint

    Bind Address of secure API endpoint
    Value
  • OpenShift Kube APIServer client CA

    OpenShift Kube APIServer client CA
    Value
  • OpenShift Kube APIServer etcd CA

    OpenShift Kube APIServer etcd CA
    Value
  • OpenShift API Server config name

    OpenShift API Server config name
    Value
  • OpenShift APIServer etcd encryption filter

    OpenShift APIServer etcd encryption config check jq filter
    Value
  • OpenShift APIServer namespace

    OpenShift APIServer namespace
    Value
  • OpenShift Kube API Server config name

    OpenShift Kube API Server config name
    Value
  • OpenShift Kube API Server config data name

    OpenShift Kube API Server config data name
    Value
  • OpenShift Kube APIServer namespace

    OpenShift Kube APIServer namespace
    Value
  • Disable the AlwaysAdmit Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure OpenShift only responses to requests explicitly allowed by the admission control plugin. Check that the <code>config</code> ConfigMap obj...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the Admission Control Plugin AlwaysPullImages is not set

    The <code>AlwaysPullImages</code> admission control plugin should be disabled, since it can introduce new failure modes for control plane component...
    Rule High Severity
  • Enable the NamespaceLifecycle Admission Control Plugin

    OpenShift enables the NamespaceLifecycle plugin by default.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the NodeRestriction Admission Control Plugin

    To limit the <code>Node</code> and <code>Pod</code> objects that a kubelet could modify, ensure that the <code>NodeRestriction</code> plugin on kub...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the SecurityContextConstraint Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure pod permissions are managed, make sure that the SecurityContextConstraint admission control plugin is used.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used

    Instead of using a customized SecurityContext for pods, a Pod Security Policy (PSP) or a SecurityContextConstraint should be used. These are cluste...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable the ServiceAccount Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure <code>ServiceAccount</code> objects must be created and granted before pod creation is allowed, follow the documentation and create <code...
    Rule Medium Severity

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