kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark (by aquasecurity)
KubiScan
A tool to scan Kubernetes cluster for risky permissions (by cyberark)
| kube-bench | KubiScan | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 10 | |
| 6,659 | 1,278 | |
| 1.1% | 0.5% | |
| 8.4 | 5.9 | |
| 4 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Go | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kube-bench
Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-bench.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-01.
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
2. Kubebench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench Kubebench is an open-source tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
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Evaluating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure with kube-bench
However, no matter how well our applications are secured, the security of our entire IT environment ultimately depends on the security of our infrastructure. Therefore, in the lab to follow, we will shift our focus away from Kubernetes workloads and instead explore how we can evaluate and improve upon the security of our Kubernetes clusters with kube-bench, the industry-leading Kubernetes benchmarking solution developed by Aqua.
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Kube-bench and Popeye: A Power Duo for AKS Security Compliance
The official repository can be found here with detailed installation instructions.
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Quickstart - Aqua Security Kube-Bench
curl -L [https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.10/kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb](https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench/releases/download/v0.6.2/kube-bench_0.6.2_linux_amd64.deb) -o kube-bench_0.6.10_linux_amd64.deb
- Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
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Kubernetes Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community
I haven't used Kubernetes for a while, but shouldn't kube-bench (1) be enough? Do you have to check anything manually?
(1) https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
kube-bench checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark. We can deploy kube-bench as a Job that runs daily and consume its report in CI/CD to pass or fail the pipeline based on the level of severity.
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Securing Kubernetes Cluster using Kubescape and kube-bench
kube-bench can be executed as a simple command on the host, as a container on the host using Docker command, or as a job inside Kubernetes Cluster. In case it is run inside a container/pod, it will need access to the PID namespace of the host system. The methods to run kube-bench in AKS, EKS, GKE, On-prem cluster, Openshift and ACK (Alibaba Cloud Container Service For Kubernetes) are different but well documented.
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What are some fundamental security practices for the self hosted k8s cluster?
Check this out: kube-bench - CIS Benchmark
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Top 6 Kubernetes Security Tools
Kube-bench, written as a Go application, is deployable as a container. Ready-made job.yaml files make it easy to run Kube-bench inside a Kubernetes cluster or on a managed Kubernetes service, such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), or OpenShift. Here's a link to Kube-Bench on Github
KubiScan
Posts with mentions or reviews of KubiScan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-12.
- Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
- KubiScan
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Kubernetes Security Checklist 2021
RBAC Rights should be audited regularly (KubiScan, Krane)
- cyberark/KubiScan - A tool to scan Kubernetes cluster for risky permissions
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kube-bench and KubiScan you can also consider the following projects:
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
syft - CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
kubesec - Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
grype - A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
kubeaudit - kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
krane - Kubernetes RBAC static analysis & visualisation tool
kube-hunter - Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
cvehound - Check linux sources dump for known CVEs.
falco - Cloud Native Runtime Security
docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.
Kyverno - Kubernetes Native Policy Management