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kube-bench is a Go application that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
Note that it is impossible to inspect the master nodes of managed clusters, e.g. GKE, EKS and AKS, using kube-bench as one does not have access to such nodes, although it is still possible to use kube-bench to check worker node configuration in these environments.
Tests are configured with YAML files, making this tool easy to update as test specifications evolve.
kube-bench supports the tests for Kubernetes as defined in the CIS Benchmarks 1.3.0 to 1.4.1 respectively.
CIS Kubernetes Benchmark | kube-bench config | Kubernetes versions |
---|---|---|
1.3.0 | cis-1.3 | 1.11-1.12 |
1.4.1 | cis-1.4 | 1.13- |
By default, kube-bench will determine the test set to run based on the Kubernetes version running on the machine.
There is also preliminary support for Red Hat’s OpenShift Hardening Guide for 3.10 and 3.11. Please note that kube-bench does not automatically detect OpenShift - see below.
You can choose to
If you run kube-bench directly from the command line you may need to be root / sudo to have access to all the config files.
kube-bench automatically selects which controls
to use based on the detected
node type and the version of Kubernetes a cluster is running. This behavior
can be overridden by specifying the master
or node
subcommand and the
--version
flag on the command line.
The Kubernetes version can also be set with the KUBE_BENCH_VERSION
environment variable.
The value of --version
takes precedence over the value of KUBE_BENCH_VERSION
.
For example, run kube-bench against a master with version auto-detection:
kube-bench master
Or run kube-bench against a worker node using the tests for Kubernetes version 1.13:
kube-bench node --version 1.13
kube-bench
will map the --version
to the corresponding CIS Benchmark version as indicated by the mapping table above. For example, if you specify --version 1.13
, this is mapped to CIS Benchmark version cis-1.14
.
Alternatively, you can specify --benchmark
to run a specific CIS Benchmark version:
kube-bench node --benchmark cis-1.4
controls
for the various versions of CIS Benchmark can be found in directories
with same name as the CIS Benchmark versions under cfg/
, for example cfg/cis-1.4
.
Note: It is an error to specify both --version and --benchmark flags together
You can avoid installing kube-bench on the host by running it inside a container using the host PID namespace and mounting the /etc
and /var
directories where the configuration and other files are located on the host so that kube-bench can check their existence and permissions.
docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -t aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node] --version 1.13
Note: the tests require either the kubelet or kubectl binary in the path in order to auto-detect the Kubernetes version. You can pass
-v $(which kubectl):/usr/bin/kubectl
to resolve this. You will also need to pass in kubeconfig credentials. For example:
docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -v $(which kubectl):/usr/bin/kubectl -v ~/.kube:/.kube -e KUBECONFIG=/.kube/config -t aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node]
You can use your own configs by mounting them over the default ones in /opt/kube-bench/cfg/
docker run --pid=host -v /etc:/etc:ro -v /var:/var:ro -t -v path/to/my-config.yaml:/opt/kube-bench/cfg/config.yam -v $(which kubectl):/usr/bin/kubectl -v ~/.kube:/.kube -e KUBECONFIG=/.kube/config aquasec/kube-bench:latest [master|node]
You can run kube-bench inside a pod, but it will need access to the host’s PID namespace in order to check the running processes, as well as access to some directories on the host where config files and other files are stored.
Master nodes are automatically detected by kube-bench and will run master checks when possible. The detection is done by verifying that mandatory components for master, as defined in the config files, are running (see Configuration).
The supplied job.yaml
file can be applied to run the tests as a job. For example:
$ kubectl apply -f job.yaml
job.batch/kube-bench created
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-bench-j76s9 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 3s
# Wait for a few seconds for the job to complete
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-bench-j76s9 0/1 Completed 0 11s
# The results are held in the pod's logs
kubectl logs kube-bench-j76s9
[INFO] 1 Master Node Security Configuration
[INFO] 1.1 API Server
...
You can still force to run specific master or node checks using respectively job-master.yaml
and job-node.yaml
.
To run the tests on the master node, the pod needs to be scheduled on that node. This involves setting a nodeSelector and tolerations in the pod spec.
The default labels applied to master nodes has changed since Kubernetes 1.11, so if you are using an older version you may need to modify the nodeSelector and tolerations to run the job on the master node.
There is a job-eks.yaml
file for running the kube-bench node checks on an EKS cluster. The significant difference on EKS is that it’s not possible to schedule jobs onto the master node, so master checks can’t be performed
eksctl
, kubectl
and the AWS CLI is within
aws ecr create-repository --repository-name k8s/kube-bench --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE
git clone https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench.git
$(aws ecr get-login --no-include-email --region <AWS_REGION>)
docker build -t k8s/kube-bench .
docker tag k8s/kube-bench:latest <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
docker tag k8s/kube-bench:latest <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
docker push <AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
<AWS_ACCT_NUMBER>.dkr.ecr.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com/k8s/kube-bench:latest
image
value in job-eks.yaml
with the URI from Step 4kubectl apply -f job-eks.yaml
default
namespace: kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
kubectl logs kube-bench-<value>
kubectl logs kube-bench-<value> > kube-bench-report.txt
This command copies the kube-bench binary and configuration files to your host from the Docker container: ** binaries compiled for linux-x86-64 only (so they won’t run on macOS or Windows) **
docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/host aquasec/kube-bench:latest install
You can then run ./kube-bench [master|node]
.
If Go is installed on the target machines, you can simply clone this repository and run as follows (assuming your GOPATH
is set):
go get github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
go get github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
$GOPATH/bin/dep ensure -vendor-only
go build -o kube-bench .
# See all supported options
./kube-bench --help
# Run all checks
./kube-bench
| OpenShift Hardening Guide | kube-bench config | |---|---|---| | ocp-3.10| rh-0.7 | | ocp-3.11| rh-0.7 |
kube-bench includes a set of test files for Red Hat’s OpenShift hardening guide for OCP 3.10 and 3.11. To run this you will need to specify --benchmark rh-07
, or --version ocp-3.10
or --version ocp-3.11
when you run the kube-bench
command (either directly or through YAML).
There are three output states:
Note:
test_items
present, it generates a WARN.Kubernetes configuration and binary file locations and names can vary from installation to installation, so these are configurable in the cfg/config.yaml
file.
Any settings in the version-specific config file cfg/<version>/config.yaml
take precedence over settings in the main cfg/config.yaml
file.
You can read more about kube-bench
configuration in our documentation.
The tests (or “controls”) are represented as YAML documents (installed by default into ./cfg
). There are different versions of these test YAML files reflecting different versions of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. You will find more information about the test file YAML definitions in our documentation.
If you decide that a recommendation is not appropriate for your environment, you can choose to omit it by editing the test YAML file to give it the check type skip
as in this example:
checks:
- id: 2.1.1
text: "Ensure that the --allow-privileged argument is set to false (Scored)"
type: "skip"
scored: true
No tests will be run for this check and the output will be marked [INFO].
Going forward we plan to release updates to kube-bench to add support for new releases of the Benchmark, which in turn we can anticipate being made for each new Kubernetes release.
We welcome PRs and issue reports.
Our makefile contains targets to test your current version of kube-bench inside a Kind cluster. This can be very handy if you don’t want to run a real Kubernetes cluster for development purposes.
First, you’ll need to create the cluster using make kind-test-cluster
this will create a new cluster if it cannot be found on your machine. By default, the cluster is named kube-bench
but you can change the name by using the environment variable KIND_PROFILE
.
If kind cannot be found on your system the target will try to install it using go get
Next, you’ll have to build the kube-bench docker image using make build-docker
, then we will be able to push the docker image to the cluster using make kind-push
.
Finally, we can use the make kind-run
target to run the current version of kube-bench in the cluster and follow the logs of pods created. (Ctrl+C to exit)
Every time you want to test a change, you’ll need to rebuild the docker image and push it to cluster before running it again. ( make build-docker kind-push kind-run
)
If you think you have found a bug please follow the instructions below.
kube-bench version
) and the command line options you are using.kubectl version
or oc version
for OpenShift).-v 10
command line option and save the log output. Please paste this into your issue.We also use the GitHub issue tracker to track feature requests. If you have an idea to make kube-bench even more awesome follow the steps below.
this
and kube-bench does that
.We welcome pull requests!