kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark (by aquasecurity)
kubeclarity
KubeClarity is a tool for detection and management of Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities of container images and filesystems (by openclarity)
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| kube-bench | kubeclarity | |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 5 | |
| 6,649 | 1,257 | |
| 1.8% | 2.3% | |
| 8.4 | 7.9 | |
| 6 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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 2023-01-23.
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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
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Introduction to Kubernetes Pentesting
kube-bench - Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
kubeclarity
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubeclarity.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-30.
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Building Secure Docker Images for Production - Best Practices
In the following steps, we use a local Kubernetes cluster (such as kind) to test the image. With the cluster up and running, let's install some tooling to help us with image scanning. In this case, we're using KubeClarity. Follow the installation instructions in the README to install it into your development cluster.
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Security starts before the production deployment
Introducing KubeClarity. KubeClarity is an open-source project to help you ship more secure software. While KubeClarity covers many different use cases, let's focus on image scanning for now.
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An Overview of Kubernetes Security Projects at KubeCon Europe 2023
KubeClarity runs on any Kubernetes cluster and provides a UI and CLI for analyzing images and generating SBOMs. By default, KubeClarity doesn’t have its own SBOM generator or vulnerability scanner, but instead supports third-party tools that you can enable in any combination, making it great for adding additional interfaces for existing toolchains.
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A tool that scans repos and workout latest version and pull date of installed version + how to lock down repos (via some cluster policy?)
the only thing I can think of is something like https://github.com/openclarity/kubeclarity but that's a little OTT for me.
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Results from devsecops tools in one dashboard
I stumbled across https://github.com/cisco-open/kubei recently, it looks the goods but I have not had time to implement yet
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kube-bench and kubeclarity you can also consider the following projects:
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
witness - Witness is a pluggable framework for software supply chain risk management. It automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance.
kubesec - Security risk analysis for Kubernetes resources
rekor - Software Supply Chain Transparency Log
kubeaudit - kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
k-rail - Kubernetes security tool for policy enforcement
kube-hunter - Hunt for security weaknesses in Kubernetes clusters
cas - Codenotary Community Attestation Service (CAS) for notarization and authentication of digital artifacts
falco - Cloud Native Runtime Security
paralus - All-in-one Kubernetes access manager. User-level credentials, RBAC, SSO, audit logs.
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.
rbac-police - Evaluate the RBAC permissions of Kubernetes identities through policies written in Rego