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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

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  • Kubernetes Settings

    Each section of this configuration guide includes information about the configuration of a Kubernetes cluster and a set of recommendations for hard...
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  • Kubernetes - Account and Access Control

    In traditional Unix security, if an attacker gains shell access to a certain login account, they can perform any action or access any file to which...
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  • Restrict Automounting of Service Account Tokens

    Service accounts tokens should not be mounted in pods except where the workload running in the pod explicitly needs to communicate with the API ser...
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  • Ensure Usage of Unique Service Accounts

    Using the <code>default</code> service account prevents accurate application rights review and audit tracing. Instead of <code>default</code>, crea...
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  • OpenShift Kube API Server

    This section contains recommendations for kube-apiserver configuration.
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  • Disable the AlwaysAdmit Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure OpenShift only responses to requests explicitly allowed by the admission control plugin. Check that the <code>config</code> ConfigMap obj...
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  • Ensure that the Admission Control Plugin AlwaysPullImages is not set

    The <code>AlwaysPullImages</code> admission control plugin should be disabled, since it can introduce new failure modes for control plane component...
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  • Enable the NamespaceLifecycle Admission Control Plugin

    OpenShift enables the NamespaceLifecycle plugin by default.
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  • Enable the NodeRestriction Admission Control Plugin

    To limit the <code>Node</code> and <code>Pod</code> objects that a kubelet could modify, ensure that the <code>NodeRestriction</code> plugin on kub...
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  • Enable the SecurityContextConstraint Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure pod permissions are managed, make sure that the SecurityContextConstraint admission control plugin is used.
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  • Enable the ServiceAccount Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure <code>ServiceAccount</code> objects must be created and granted before pod creation is allowed, follow the documentation and create <code...
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  • Ensure that anonymous requests to the API Server are authorized

    By default, anonymous access to the OpenShift API is enabled, but at the same time, all requests must be authorized. If no authentication mechanism...
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  • Enable the APIPriorityAndFairness feature gate

    To limit the rate at which the API Server accepts requests, make sure that the API Priority and Fairness feature is enabled. Using <code>APIPriorit...
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  • Configure the Kubernetes API Server Maximum Retained Audit Logs

    To configure how many rotations of audit logs are retained, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-ma...
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  • Configure Kubernetes API Server Maximum Audit Log Size

    To rotate audit logs upon reaching a maximum size, edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set the <code>audit-log-maxsize</co...
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  • Configure the Audit Log Path

    To enable auditing on the Kubernetes API Server, the audit log path must be set. Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and set t...
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  • The authorization-mode cannot be AlwaysAllow

    Do not always authorize all requests.
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  • Ensure authorization-mode RBAC is configured

    To ensure OpenShift restricts different identities to a defined set of operations they are allowed to perform, check that the API server's <code>au...
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  • Disable basic-auth-file for the API Server

    Basic Authentication should not be used for any reason. If needed, edit API Edit the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap and remove the...
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  • Ensure that the bindAddress is set to a relevant secure port

    The bindAddress is set by default to 0.0.0.0:6443, and listening with TLS enabled.
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