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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

  • System Cryptographic Policies

    OpenShift has the capability to centrally configure cryptographic polices.
    Group
  • Ensure that the MachineSets provisioned by Azure have disk encryption enabled

    OpenShift has an option to provide the Disk Encryption Set [1] when deploying nodes on Azure. This enabled disk encryption and ensures that the OpenShift nodes have that enabled. [1] https://docs....
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that EBS volumes use by cluster nodes are encrypted

    OpenShift MachineSets can be configured to enable EBS encryption on EBS storage used by cluster nodes. By using EBS encryption, disk contents are encrypted using a AWS KMS key.
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that FIPS mode is enabled on all cluster nodes

    OpenShift has an installation-time flag that can enable FIPS mode for the cluster. The flag
    fips: true
    must be enabled at install time in the
    install-config.yaml
    file.
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that the MachineSets provisioned by GCP have disk encryption enabled

    OpenShift has an option to provide the Disk Encryption Set [1] when deploying nodes on GCP. This enabled disk encryption and ensures that the OpenShift nodes have that enabled. [1] https://docs.op...
    Rule High Severity

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