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

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  • Ensure That The kubelet Server Key Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS private server key certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and configure the kubelet private key file. <pr...
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  • Ensure that the Kubelet only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

    Ensure that the Kubelet is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers. To set the cipher suites for the kubelet, create new or modify existing <code>KubeletConfig</code> object along these...
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  • Ensure that the Ingress Controller only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

    Ensure that the Ingress Controller is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers.
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  • Ensure that the Kubernetes API Server Operator only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

    Ensure that the Kubernetes API Server Operator is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers.
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  • Ensure that the OpenShift API Server Operator only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers

    Ensure that the OpenShift API Server Operator is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers.
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  • Ensure Kubelet is configured with allowed TLS versions

    <p> The configuration <code>tlsSecurityProfile</code> specifies TLS configurations to be used while establishing connections with the externally exposed servers. Though secure transp...
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  • kubelet - Hostname Override handling

    Normally, OpenShift lets the kubelet get the hostname from either the cloud provider itself, or from the node's hostname. This ensures that the PKI allocated by the deployment uses the appropriate ...
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  • 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.
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  • kubelet - Enable Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter: <pre> ... rota...
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  • kubelet - Enable Client Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter: <pre> featureG...
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  • 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 timeouts, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/e...
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  • kubelet - Ensure that the --read-only-port is secured

    Disable the read-only port.
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  • Ensure that Audit Log Forwarding Uses TLS

    <p> OpenShift audit works at the API server level, logging all requests coming to the server. Audit is on by default and the best practice is to ship audit logs off the cluster for r...
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  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift SDN Container Network Interface Plugin IP Address Allocations

    To properly set the owner of /var/lib/cni/networks/openshift-sdn/.*, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /var/lib/cni/networks/openshift-sdn/.*
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  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift Admin Kubeconfig Files

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-apiserver-certs/secrets/node-kubeconfigs/*.kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/s...
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  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift PKI Private Key Files

    To properly set the owner of /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/*/*/*/*.key, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/*/*/*/*.key
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  • Verify User Who Owns The OpenShift SDN CNI Server Config

    To properly set the owner of /var/run/openshift-sdn/cniserver/config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /var/run/openshift-sdn/cniserver/config.json
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubernetes Scheduler Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the owner of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-scheduler-pod-*/configmaps/scheduler-kubeconfig/kubeconfig</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chown root /etc/kuberne...
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  • Verify Permissions on the Etcd Member Pod Specification File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd-pod.yaml, run the command: 
    $ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd-pod.yaml
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  • Verify Permissions on the Kube Scheduler Pod Specification File

    To properly set the permissions of <code>/etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-scheduler-pod.yaml</code>, run the command: <pre>$ sudo chmod 0600 /etc/kubernetes/static-pod-resources/kube-sche...
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