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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.