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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

  • Create administrative boundaries between resources using namespaces

    Use namespaces to isolate your Kubernetes objects.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that GitOps Operator is deployed

    Red Hat OpenShift GitOps is a declarative continuous delivery platform based on Argo CD. It enables teams to adopt GitOps principles for managing c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the kubeadmin secret has been removed

    The kubeadmin user is meant to be a temporary user used for bootstrapping purposes. It is preferable to assign system administrators whose users ar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth login template is set

    A legal notice can be configured via a customized login template. <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by creating a custom login page, st...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth logout URL is set

    The user can be redirected to a configured URL upon logout <br> This is achievable via the OAuth object by setting the <code>logoutRedirect</code>...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the OpenShift OAuth provider selection is set

    Custom login pages can be helpful to show users a branded page that they trust and expect before being redirected to the authentication provider. <...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that the OpenShift MOTD is set

    To configure OpenShift's MOTD, create a <b>ConfigMap</b> called <code>motd</code> in the <code>openshift</code> namespace. The object should look ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that project templates autocreate Resource Quotas

    <p> Configure a template for newly created projects to use default resource quotas and make sure this template is referenced from th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that project config references a project template

    The OpenShift Container Platform API server automatically provisions new projects based on the project template that is identified by the <code>pro...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that project templates autocreate Resource Quotas

    Configure a template for newly created projects to use default resource quotas and make sure this template is referenced from the default project t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all daemonsets has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The kubelet Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the kubelet TLS client certificate is configured, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf</code> and confi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all deployments has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that all statefulsets has resource limits

    When deploying an application, it is important to tune based on memory and CPU consumption, allocating enough resources for the application to func...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure workloads use resource requests and limits

    There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure workloads use cluster resource requests and limits

    There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure workloads use resource requests and limits per namespace

    There are two ways to enable resource requests and limits. To create either: A multi-project quota, defined by a ClusterResourceQuota object, all...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure TLS v1.2 is minimum for Openshift APIServer

    Verify tls version for the openshift APIServer.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure TLS v1.2 is minimum for Openshift master and worker nodes

    Ensure that the Kubelet is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers. To set the cipher suites for the kubelet, create new or modify exis...
    Rule Medium Severity

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