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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 hardening the configuration. For each hardening recomm...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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:...
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  • 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:...
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  • 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...
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  • 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:...
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  • kubelet - Do Not Disable Streaming Timeouts

    Timouts for streaming connections should not be disabled as they help to prevent denial-of-service attacks. To configure streaming connection timeouts To set the <code>streamingConnectionIdleTimeou...
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  • Kubernetes - Worker Node Settings

    Contains evaluations for the worker node configuration settings.
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  • Verify Group Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the group owner of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chgrp root /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Verify Group Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the group owner of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chgrp root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the owner of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Verify User Who Owns The Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the owner of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chown root /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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  • Verify Permissions on The Kubelet Configuration File

    To properly set the permissions of /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json, run the command: 
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/kubernetes/kubelet/kubelet-config.json
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  • Verify Permissions on the Worker Kubeconfig File

    To properly set the permissions of /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig, run the command: 
    $ sudo chmod 0644 /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
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