| copyright | lastupdated | keywords | subcollection | ||
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2024-10-10 |
openshift, benchmarks, 4.15, compliance operator, compliance |
openshift |
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Review the compliance operator benchmark results for {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} version 4.15. {: shortdesc}
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The master node configuration is not stored as a set of files; therefore, rules in section 1.1 are out of the scope of the automated check by the compliance operator.
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.1 | Ensure that anonymous requests are authorized | Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.2 | Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.3 | Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.4 | Use https for kubelet connections | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.5 | Ensure that the kubelet uses certificates to authenticate | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.6 | Verify that the kubelet certificate authority is set as appropriate | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.7 | Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.8 | Verify that the Node authorizer is enabled | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.9 | Verify that RBAC is enabled | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.10 | Ensure that the APIPriorityAndFairness feature gate is enabled | Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.11 | Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.12 | Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is not set |
Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.13 | Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is not set |
Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.14 | Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.15 | Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.16 | Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextConstraint is set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.17 | Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.18 | Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.19 | Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0 |
Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.20 | Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.21 | Ensure that the healthz endpoint is protected by RBAC |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.22 | Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.23 | Ensure that the audit logs are forwarded off the cluster for retention | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.24 | Ensure that the maximumRetainedFiles argument is set to 10 or as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.25 | Ensure that the maximumFileSizeMegabytes argument is set to 100 or as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.26 | Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.27 | Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.28 | Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.29 | Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.30 | Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.31 | Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.32 | Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.2.33 | Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate |
Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.34 | Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.2.35 | Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers | Manual | 1 | Pass |
| {: caption="Benchmarks for api server." caption-side="top"} | ||||
| {: caption="Section 1.2 API server benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3.1 | Ensure that garbage collection is configured as appropriate | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 1.3.2 | Ensure that controller manager healthz endpoints are protected by RBAC |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.3.3 | Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.3.4 | Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.3.5 | Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.3.6 | Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true | Automated | 2 | Pass |
| 1.3.7 | Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| {: caption="Section 1.3 Controller manager benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.1 | Ensure that the healthz endpoints for the scheduler are protected by RBAC |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 1.4.2 | Verify that the scheduler API service is protected by authentication and authorization | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| {: caption="Section 1.4 Scheduler benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | Ensure that the --cert-file and --key-file options are set as appropriate. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.2 | Ensure that the --client-cert-auth option is set to true. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.3 | Ensure that the --auto-tls option is not set to true. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.4 | Ensure that the --peer-cert-file and --peer-key-file options are set as appropriate. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.5 | Ensure that the --peer-client-cert-auth option is set to true. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.6 | Ensure that the --peer-auto-tls option is not set to true. |
Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 2.7 | Ensure that a unique Certificate Authority is used for etcd. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 2 etcd benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1.1 | Do not use client certificate authentication for users. | Manual | 2 | Pass |
| {: caption="Section 3.1 Authentication and Authorization benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2.1 | Ensure that a minimal audit policy is created. | Automated | 1 | Pass |
| 3.2.2 | Ensure that the audit policy covers key security concerns. | Manual | 2 | Pass |
| {: caption="Section 3.3 Logging benchmark results"} |
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Follow the instruction in Using the compliance operator to perform automated check for worker node configuration.
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1.1 | Ensure that the cluster-admin role is used only where required. | Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 5.1.2 | Minimize access to secrets. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.1.3 | Minimize wildcard use in roles and ClusterRoles. |
Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.1.4 | Minimize access to create pods. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.1.5 | Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used. | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.1.6 | Ensure that Service Account Tokens are mounted only where necessary. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.1 RBAC and Service Accounts benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2.1 | Minimize the admission of privileged containers. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.2 | Minimize the admission of containers wanting to share the host process ID namespace. | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.3 | Minimize the admission of containers wanting to share the host IPC namespace. | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.4 | Minimize the admission of containers wanting to share the host network namespace. | Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.5 | Minimize the admission of containers with allowPrivilegeEscalation. |
Automated | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.6 | Minimize the admission of root containers. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| 5.2.7 | Minimize the admission of containers with the NET_RAW capability. |
Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.8 | Minimize the admission of containers with added capabilities. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.2.9 | Minimize the admission of containers with capabilities assigned. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.2 Pod Security Policies benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3.1 | Ensure that the CNI in use supports network policies. | Manual | 1 | Pass |
| 5.3.2 | Ensure that all namespaces have network policies defined. | Automated | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.3 Network policies and CNI benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4.1 | Prefer to use secrets as files over secrets as environment variables. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.4.2 | Consider external secret storage. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.4 Secrets management benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5.1 | Configure image provenance by using image controller configuration parameters. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.5 Extensible admission control benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation | Manual/Automated | Level | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.7.1 | Create administrative boundaries between resources by using namespaces. | Manual | 1 | Not checked |
| 5.7.2 | Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to docker/default in your pod definitions. |
Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| 5.7.3 | Apply security context to your pods and containers. | Manual | 2 | Not checked |
| 5.7.4 | Do not use the default namespace. | Automated | 2 | Not checked |
| {: caption="Section 5.7 General policies benchmark results"} |
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| Section | Recommendation/Explanation |
|---|---|
| 1.2.23 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} can optionally enable Kubernetes API server auditing. |
| 1.2.24 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} sets the maximumRetainedFiles argument to 1. |
| 1.2.25 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} sets the maximumFileSizeMegabytes argument to 10. |
| 1.2.33 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} can optionally enable a Kubernetes Key Management Service (KMS) provider. |
| 1.2.34 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} can optionally enable a Kubernetes Key Management Service (KMS) provider. |
| 2.7 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} configures a unique Certificate Authority for etcd. |
| 5.2.8 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} installs custom SCCs. |
| 5.3.2 | {{site.data.keyword.openshiftlong_notm}} has a set of default Calico network policies defined and additional network policies can optionally be added. |
| {: caption="Remediations and explanations"} |