User-managed resources must be created in dedicated namespaces.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Creating namespaces for user-managed resources is important when implementing Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). RBAC allows for the authorization of users and helps support proper API server permissions separation and network micro segmentation. If user-managed resources are placed within the default namespaces, it becomes impossible to implement policies for RBAC permission, service account usage, network policies, and more.
- ID
- SV-242383r960801_rule
- Version
- CNTR-K8-000290
- Severity
- High
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Move any user-managed resources from the default, kube-public, and kube-node-lease namespaces to user namespaces.