Skip to content

CIS Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Benchmark

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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
  • Configure the Service Account Certificate Authority Key for the Controller Manager

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, set the <code>masterCA</code> parameter to the public key file for service accounts in the <cod...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure the Service Account Private Key for the Controller Manager

    To ensure the API Server utilizes its own key pair, set the <code>privateKeyFile</code> parameter to the public key file for service accounts in th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure that use-service-account-credentials is enabled

    To ensure individual service account credentials are used, set the <code>use-service-account-credentials</code> option to <code>true</code> in the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • OpenShift etcd Settings

    Contains rules that check correct OpenShift etcd settings.
    Group
  • Disable etcd Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-et...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The etcd Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable The Client Certificate Authentication

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> <code>ConfigMaps</code> in the <code>opensh...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The etcd Key File Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to clients, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable etcd Peer Self-Signed Certificates

    To ensure the <code>etcd</code> service is not using self-signed certificates, run the following command: <pre>$ oc get cm/etcd-pod -n openshift-et...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure That The etcd Peer Client Certificate Is Correctly Set

    To ensure the etcd service is serving TLS to peers, make sure the <code>etcd-pod*</code> ConfigMaps in the <code>openshift-etcd</code> namespace co...
    Rule Medium Severity

The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

Capacity
Modules