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CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Benchmark - Node

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Kubernetes Settings

    Each section of this configuration guide includes information about the configuration of a Kubernetes cluster and a set of recommendations for hard...
    Group
  • Kubernetes Kubelet Settings

    The Kubernetes Kubelet is an agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are running in a pod. The kubelet takes a ...
    Group
  • Disable Anonymous Authentication to the Kubelet

    By default, anonymous access to the Kubelet server is enabled. This configuration check ensures that anonymous requests to the Kubelet server are d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure authorization is set to Webhook

    Unauthenticated/unauthorized users should have no access to OpenShift nodes. The Kubelet should be set to only allow Webhook authorization. To ensu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Hostname Override handling

    Normally, OpenShift lets the kubelet get the hostname from either the cloud provider itself, or from the node's hostname. This ensures that the PKI...
    Rule Low Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Client Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate client certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> o...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Allow Automatic Firewall Configuration

    The kubelet has the ability to automatically configure the firewall to allow the containers required ports and connections to networking resources ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Protect Kernel Defaults

    Protect tuned kernel parameters from being overwritten by the kubelet.

    Rule Medium Severity
  • kubelet - Enable Server Certificate Rotation

    To enable the kubelet to rotate server certificates, edit the kubelet configuration file <code>/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json</code> o...
    Rule Medium Severity

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