⚠️ Pod Security Policy (PSP) was deprecated in K8s v1.21 and fully removed as of K8s v1.25. Pod Security Admission (PSA), fully introduced in K8s v1.25, is the replacement.

The ins & outs of using STIG viewer aren't covered, but it can be downloaded HERE and the RKE2 STIG that this Terraform plan references can be downloaded HERE.

To run the latest STIG viewer on Mac, use brew to first install Java stuff:

brew tap bell-sw/liberica
brew install --cask liberica-jdk16-full

and then download/extract the generic viewer .zip file from the link above.

📝 CIS will soon be abandoning their current versioning schema (that aligns a CIS version with a Kubernetes minor release version) and returning to the "original" format.

The STIG conformant cluster deployed by this Terraform plan includes additional configuration to make it CIS 1.6 (v1.24andBelow branch) or 1.23 (v1.25+ branch) conformant as well. The documentation for RKE2 CIS benchmark settings is HERE.

Changing filesystem permissions expost facto is onerous and error-prone. Luckily, deploying RKE2 via Rancher sets most STIG permissions correctly for us. There are a couple of directories & files that fall through the cracks and this plan automatically remediates them by leveraging RKE2's System Upgrade Controller (stig_suc_plan.yaml). On all cluster nodes the plan executes a quick, simple bash script that's mounted from the stig-filesystem-remediation secret (stig_suc_secret.tf). For the sake of being thorough, the secret is annotated with the appropriate STIG Rule ID & Name.

The minimum vSphere permissions Rancher requires for downstream cluster deployments are HERE. These permissions are not related to any particular STIG guideline.

📝 This is not an exhastive list of server arguments used in this plan; just those directly relating to RKE2 STIG conformance.