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

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  • Configure the Service Account Private Key for the Controller Manager

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, set the <code>privateKeyFile</code> parameter to the public key file for service accounts in the <code>openshift-kube-controller-manager</code> c...
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  • OpenShift etcd Settings

    Contains rules that check correct OpenShift etcd settings.
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  • Disable etcd Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-etcd -o yaml</pre> The etcd pod configuration contai...
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  • Ensure That The etcd Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace contain the following argument for the <code>etcd<...
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  • Ensure ETCD has correct cipher suite

    Check the current cipher suite used in ETCD.
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  • Ensure That The etcd Key File Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace contain the following argument for the <code>etcd<...
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  • Disable etcd Peer Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-etcd -o yaml</pre> The etcd pod configuration contai...
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  • Ensure That The etcd Peer Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace contain the following argument for the <code>etcd</c...
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  • Enable The Peer Client Certificate Authentication

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> <code>ConfigMaps</code> in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace contain the follo...
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  • Ensure That The etcd Peer Key File Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace contain the following argument for the <code>etcd</c...
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  • Configure A Unique CA Certificate for etcd

    A unique CA certificate should be created for <code>etcd</code>. OpenShift by default creates separate PKIs for etcd and the Kubernetes API server. The same is done for other points of communicati...
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  • Kubernetes - General Security Practices

    Contains evaluations for general security practices for operating a Kubernetes environment.
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  • Ensure the alert receiver is configured

    In OpenShift Container Platform, an alert is fired when the conditions defined in an alerting rule are true. An alert provides a notification that a set of circumstances are apparent within a clust...
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  • Streaming Connection Timeout Options

    Time until connection timeouts. Use (s) for seconds, (m) for minutes, and (h) for hours.
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  • Enable Classification Banner on OpenShift Console

    A classification banner can be configured by creating a Console Notification CR on OpenShift
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  • Ensure the notification is enabled for Compliance Operator

    The OpenShift platform provides the Compliance Operator for administrators to monitor compliance state of a cluster and provides them with an overview of gaps and ways to remediate them, and this ...
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  • Kubernetes Pod Logs Must Be Group Owned By Root

    All logs must be owned by root user and group and have permissions 755. By default, the path for the Kubernetes pod logs is 
    /var/log/pods/
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  • Ensure the notification is enabled for file integrity operator

    The OpenShift platform provides the File Integrity Operator to monitor for unwanted file changes, and this control ensures proper notification alert is enabled so that system administrators and sec...
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  • Kubernetes Pod Logs Must Be Owned and Group Owned By Root and have permissions 755

    <p> All logs must be owned by root user and group and have permissions 755. By default, the path for the Kubernetes pod logs is <pre>/var/log/pods/</pre>. </p> <p> If a...
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  • Kubernetes Pod Logs Must Be Owned By Root

    All logs must be owned by root user and group. By default, the path for the Kubernetes audit log is <pre>/var/log/kube-apiserver/</pre>. To properly set the owner of <code>/var/log/pods/*</code>, ...
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