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Ensure that the --audit-log-maxbackup argument is set to 10 or as appropriate (API Server)

Retain 10 or an appropriate number of old log files. Kubernetes automatically rotates the log files. Retaining old log files ensures that you would have sufficient log data available for carrying out any investigation or correlation. For example, if you have set file size of 100 MB and the number of old log files to keep as 10, you would approximate have 1 GB of log data that you could potentially use for your analysis.

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Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: Pods
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.K8S.LOG.03
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Compute

GSL LOGIC

KubernetesPod where labels contain [value='kube-apiserver'] and namespace = 'kube-system' should have spec.containers with [parsedArgs contain [key like 'audit-log-maxbackup' and value >= 10]]

REMEDIATION

Edit the API server pod specification file $apiserverconf
on the master node and set the --audit-log-maxbackup parameter to 10
or to an appropriate value.
--audit-log-maxbackup=10

References

  1. https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kube-apiserver/
  2. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/audit/
  3. https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/22

Pods

Pods are the smallest deployable units of computing that can be created and managed in Kubernetes.A Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as Docker containers), with shared storage/network, and a specification for how to run the containers.

Compliance Frameworks

  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.20
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.23
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.24
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.4.0
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.5.1
  • CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.6.1
  • Kubernetes NIST.SP.800-190
  • Kubernetes v.1.13 CloudGuard Best Practices
  • Kubernetes v.1.14 CloudGuard Best Practices

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