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NIST 800-53 Moderate-Impact Baseline for Red Hat OpenShift - Platform level

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  • OpenShift Kube API Server

    This section contains recommendations for kube-apiserver configuration.
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  • Disable the AlwaysAdmit Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure OpenShift only responses to requests explicitly allowed by the admission control plugin. Check that the <code>config</code> ConfigMap obj...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Ensure that the Admission Control Plugin AlwaysPullImages is not set

    The <code>AlwaysPullImages</code> admission control plugin should be disabled, since it can introduce new failure modes for control plane component...
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  • Enable the NamespaceLifecycle Admission Control Plugin

    OpenShift enables the NamespaceLifecycle plugin by default.
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  • Enable the NodeRestriction Admission Control Plugin

    To limit the <code>Node</code> and <code>Pod</code> objects that a kubelet could modify, ensure that the <code>NodeRestriction</code> plugin on kub...
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  • Enable the SecurityContextConstraint Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure pod permissions are managed, make sure that the SecurityContextConstraint admission control plugin is used.
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  • Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used

    Instead of using a customized SecurityContext for pods, a Pod Security Policy (PSP) or a SecurityContextConstraint should be used. These are cluste...
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  • Enable the ServiceAccount Admission Control Plugin

    To ensure <code>ServiceAccount</code> objects must be created and granted before pod creation is allowed, follow the documentation and create <code...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Ensure that anonymous requests to the API Server are authorized

    By default, anonymous access to the OpenShift API is enabled, but at the same time, all requests must be authorized. If no authentication mechanism...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Ensure catch-all FlowSchema object for API Priority and Fairness Exists

    Using <code>APIPriorityAndFairness</code> feature provides a fine-grained way to control the behaviour of the Kubernetes API server in an overload ...
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