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The Compliance Operator lets OpenShift Container Platform administrators describe the required compliance state of a cluster and provides them with an overview of gaps and ways to remediate them. The Compliance Operator assesses compliance of both the Kubernetes API resources of OpenShift Container Platform, as well as the nodes running the cluster. The Compliance Operator uses OpenSCAP, a NIST-certified tool, to scan and enforce security policies provided by the content.

The Compliance Operator is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) deployments only.

Compliance Operator profiles

There are several profiles available as part of the Compliance Operator installation. You can use the oc get command to view available profiles, profile details, and specific rules.

  • View the available profiles:

    $ oc get -n <namespace> profiles.compliance

    This example displays the profiles in the default openshift-compliance namespace:

    $ oc get -n openshift-compliance profiles.compliance
    Example output
    NAME                 AGE
    ocp4-cis             32m
    ocp4-cis-node        32m
    ocp4-e8              32m
    ocp4-moderate        32m
    ocp4-moderate-node   32m
    ocp4-nerc-cip        32m
    ocp4-nerc-cip-node   32m
    ocp4-pci-dss         32m
    ocp4-pci-dss-node    32m
    rhcos4-e8            32m
    rhcos4-moderate      32m
    rhcos4-nerc-cip      32m

    These profiles represent different compliance benchmarks. Each profile has the product name that it applies to added as a prefix to the profile’s name. ocp4-e8 applies the Essential 8 benchmark to the OpenShift Container Platform product, while rhcos4-e8 applies the Essential 8 benchmark to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) product.

  • View the details of a profile:

    $ oc get -n <namespace> -oyaml profiles.compliance <profile name>

    This example displays the details of the rhcos4-e8 profile:

    $ oc get -n openshift-compliance -oyaml profiles.compliance rhcos4-e8
    Example output
    apiVersion: compliance.openshift.io/v1alpha1
    description: |-
      This profile contains configuration checks for Red Hat
      Enterprise Linux CoreOS that align to the Australian
      Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight.
      A copy of the Essential Eight in Linux Environments guide can
      be found at the ACSC website: ...
      id: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_e8
      kind: Profile
      metadata:
        annotations:
          compliance.openshift.io/image-digest: pb-rhcos426smj
          compliance.openshift.io/product: redhat_enterprise_linux_coreos_4
          compliance.openshift.io/product-type: Node
        labels:
          compliance.openshift.io/profile-bundle: rhcos4
        name: rhcos4-e8
        namespace: openshift-compliance
        ownerReferences:
        - apiVersion: compliance.openshift.io/v1alpha1
          blockOwnerDeletion: true
          controller: true
          kind: ProfileBundle
          name: rhcos4
      rules:
      - rhcos4-accounts-no-uid-except-zero
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-dac-modification-chmod
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-dac-modification-chown
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-chcon
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-restorecon
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-semanage
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-setfiles
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-setsebool
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-execution-seunshare
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-kernel-module-loading-delete
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-kernel-module-loading-finit
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-kernel-module-loading-init
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events-faillock
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events-lastlog
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events-tallylog
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-networkconfig-modification
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-sysadmin-actions
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-time-adjtimex
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-time-clock-settime
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-time-settimeofday
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-time-stime
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-time-watch-localtime
      - rhcos4-audit-rules-usergroup-modification
      - rhcos4-auditd-data-retention-flush
      - rhcos4-auditd-freq
      - rhcos4-auditd-local-events
      - rhcos4-auditd-log-format
      - rhcos4-auditd-name-format
      - rhcos4-auditd-write-logs
      - rhcos4-configure-crypto-policy
      - rhcos4-configure-ssh-crypto-policy
      - rhcos4-no-empty-passwords
      - rhcos4-selinux-policytype
      - rhcos4-selinux-state
      - rhcos4-service-auditd-enabled
      - rhcos4-sshd-disable-empty-passwords
      - rhcos4-sshd-disable-gssapi-auth
      - rhcos4-sshd-disable-rhosts
      - rhcos4-sshd-disable-root-login
      - rhcos4-sshd-disable-user-known-hosts
      - rhcos4-sshd-do-not-permit-user-env
      - rhcos4-sshd-enable-strictmodes
      - rhcos4-sshd-print-last-log
      - rhcos4-sshd-set-loglevel-info
      - rhcos4-sysctl-kernel-dmesg-restrict
      - rhcos4-sysctl-kernel-kptr-restrict
      - rhcos4-sysctl-kernel-randomize-va-space
      - rhcos4-sysctl-kernel-unprivileged-bpf-disabled
      - rhcos4-sysctl-kernel-yama-ptrace-scope
      - rhcos4-sysctl-net-core-bpf-jit-harden
      title: Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Essential Eight
  • View the rules within a desired profile:

    $ oc get -n <namespace> -oyaml rules.compliance <rule_name>

    This example displays the rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events rule in the rhcos4 profile:

    $ oc get -n openshift-compliance -oyaml rules.compliance rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events
    Example output
      apiVersion: compliance.openshift.io/v1alpha1
      checkType: Node
      description: |-
        The audit system already collects login information for all users and root. If the auditd daemon is configured to use the augenrules program to read audit rules during daemon startup (the default), add the following lines to a file with suffix.rules in the directory /etc/audit/rules.d in order to watch for attempted manual edits of files involved in storing logon events:
    
        -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins
        -w /var/run/faillock -p wa -k logins
        -w /var/log/lastlog -p wa -k logins
    
        If the auditd daemon is configured to use the auditctl utility to read audit rules during daemon startup, add the following lines to /etc/audit/audit.rules file in order to watch for unattempted manual edits of files involved in storing logon events:
    
        -w /var/log/tallylog -p wa -k logins
        -w /var/run/faillock -p wa -k logins
        -w /var/log/lastlog -p wa -k logins
      id: xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_audit_rules_login_events
      kind: Rule
      metadata:
        annotations:
          compliance.openshift.io/image-digest: pb-rhcos426smj
          compliance.openshift.io/rule: audit-rules-login-events
          control.compliance.openshift.io/NIST-800-53: AU-2(d);AU-12(c);AC-6(9);CM-6(a)
          control.compliance.openshift.io/PCI-DSS: Req-10.2.3
          policies.open-cluster-management.io/controls: AU-2(d),AU-12(c),AC-6(9),CM-6(a),Req-10.2.3
          policies.open-cluster-management.io/standards: NIST-800-53,PCI-DSS
        labels:
          compliance.openshift.io/profile-bundle: rhcos4
        name: rhcos4-audit-rules-login-events
        namespace: openshift-compliance
        ownerReferences:
        - apiVersion: compliance.openshift.io/v1alpha1
          blockOwnerDeletion: true
          controller: true
          kind: ProfileBundle
          name: rhcos4
      rationale: Manual editing of these files may indicate nefarious activity, such as
        an attacker attempting to remove evidence of an intrusion.
      severity: medium
      title: Record Attempts to Alter Logon and Logout Events
      warning: Manual editing of these files may indicate nefarious activity, such as an attacker attempting to remove evidence of an intrusion.