CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Benchmark - Node
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 hardening the configuration. For each hardening recomm...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 set of PodSpecs that are provided through various ...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 disabled. Edit the Kubelet server configuration fil...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 ensure that the Kubelet requires authorization, valida...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 allocated by the deployment uses the appropriate ...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> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter:...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> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter:...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 and destinations parameters potentially creating a...Rule Medium Severity -
kubelet - Enable Protect Kernel Defaults
Protect tuned kernel parameters from being overwritten by the kubelet.
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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> on the kubelet node(s) and set the below parameter:...Rule Medium Severity
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