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CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

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  • Use Strong Cryptographic Ciphers on the API Server

    To ensure that the API Server is configured to only use strong cryptographic ciphers, verify the <code>openshift-kube-apiserver</code> configmap co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Certificate Key for the API Server

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own TLS certificates, the <code>tls-private-key-file</code> must be configured. Verify that the <code>apiServ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Token-based Authentication

    To ensure OpenShift does not accept token-based authentication, follow the OpenShift documentation and configure alternate mechanisms for authentic...
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure that Audit Log Forwarding Is Enabled

    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 a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that Audit Log Webhook Is Configured

    Audit is on by default and the best practice is to ship audit logs off an cluster for retention. HyperShift is able to do this with the a audit web...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Authentication

    In cloud workloads, there are many ways to create and configure to multiple authentication services. Some of these authentication methods by not be...
    Group
  • Configure An Identity Provider

    <p> For users to interact with OpenShift Container Platform, they must first authenticate to the cluster. The authentication layer i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift Controller Settings

    This section contains recommendations for the kube-controller-manager configuration
    Group
  • Ensure Controller insecure port argument is unset

    To ensure the Controller Manager service is bound to secure loopback address and a secure port, set the <code>RotateKubeletServerCertificate</code>...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Ensure Controller secure-port argument is set

    To ensure the Controller Manager service is bound to secure loopback address using a secure port, set the <code>RotateKubeletServerCertificate</cod...
    Rule Low Severity

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