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💼 1 Control Plane Components

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This section consists of security recommendations for the direct configuration of Kubernetes control plane processes. These recommendations may not be directly applicable for cluster operators in environments where these components are managed by a 3rd party.

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SectionSub SectionsInternal RulesPoliciesFlagsCompliance
💼 1.1 Master Node Configuration Files21no data
 💼 1.1.1 Ensure that the API server pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.2 Ensure that the API server pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.3 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.4 Ensure that the controller manager pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.5 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.6 Ensure that the scheduler pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.7 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.8 Ensure that the etcd pod specification file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.9 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.10 Ensure that the Container Network Interface file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.11 Ensure that the etcd data directory permissions are set to 700 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.12 Ensure that the etcd data directory ownership is set to etcd:etcd (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.13 Ensure that the admin.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.14 Ensure that the admin.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.15 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.16 Ensure that the scheduler.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.17 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.18 Ensure that the controller-manager.conf file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.19 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI directory and file ownership is set to root:root (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.20 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI certificate file permissions are set to 644 or more restrictive (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.1.21 Ensure that the Kubernetes PKI key file permissions are set to 600 (Not Scored)no data
💼 1.2 API Server35no data
 💼 1.2.1 Ensure that the --anonymous-auth argument is set to false (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.2 Ensure that the --basic-auth-file argument is not set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.3 Ensure that the --token-auth-file parameter is not set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.4 Ensure that the --kubelet-https argument is set to true (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.5 Ensure that the --kubelet-client-certificate and --kubelet-client-key arguments are set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.6 Ensure that the --kubelet-certificate-authority argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.7 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument is not set to AlwaysAllow (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.8 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes Node (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.9 Ensure that the --authorization-mode argument includes RBAC (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.10 Ensure that the admission control plugin EventRateLimit is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.11 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysAdmit is not set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.12 Ensure that the admission control plugin AlwaysPullImages is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.13 Ensure that the admission control plugin SecurityContextDeny is set if PodSecurityPolicy is not used (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.14 Ensure that the admission control plugin ServiceAccount is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.15 Ensure that the admission control plugin NamespaceLifecycle is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.16 Ensure that the admission control plugin PodSecurityPolicy is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.17 Ensure that the admission control plugin NodeRestriction is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.18 Ensure that the --insecure-bind-address argument is not set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.19 Ensure that the --insecure-port argument is set to 0 (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.20 Ensure that the --secure-port argument is not set to 0 (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.21 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.22 Ensure that the --audit-log-path argument is set (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.23 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxage argument is set to 30 or as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.24 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.25 Ensure that the --audit-log-maxsize argument is set to 100 or as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.26 Ensure that the --request-timeout argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.27 Ensure that the --service-account-lookup argument is set to true (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.28 Ensure that the --service-account-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.29 Ensure that the --etcd-certfile and --etcd-keyfile arguments are set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.30 Ensure that the --tls-cert-file and --tls-private-key-file arguments are set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.31 Ensure that the --client-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.32 Ensure that the --etcd-cafile argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.33 Ensure that the --encryption-provider-config argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.34 Ensure that encryption providers are appropriately configured (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.2.35 Ensure that the API Server only makes use of Strong Cryptographic Ciphers (Not Scored)no data
💼 1.3 Controller Manager7no data
 💼 1.3.1 Ensure that the --terminated-pod-gc-threshold argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.2 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.3 Ensure that the --use-service-account-credentials argument is set to true (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.4 Ensure that the --service-account-private-key-file argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.5 Ensure that the --root-ca-file argument is set as appropriate (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.6 Ensure that the RotateKubeletServerCertificate argument is set to true (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.3.7 Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Not Scored)no data
💼 1.4 Scheduler2no data
 💼 1.4.1 Ensure that the --profiling argument is set to false (Not Scored)no data
 💼 1.4.2 Ensure that the --bind-address argument is set to 127.0.0.1 (Not Scored)no data