SUSE Rancher for AWS Security Guides

NeuVector is an open-source, container-focused security application that is now integrated into Rancher. NeuVector provides production security, DevOps vulnerability protection, and a container firewall, et al. Please see the Rancher docs and the SUSE® Security docs for more information.

Rancher leverages kube-bench to run a security scan to check whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices.

When Rancher runs a Compliance scan on a cluster, it generates a report showing the results of each test, including a summary with the number of passed, skipped and failed tests. The report also includes remediation steps for any failed tests.

For details, refer to the section on security scans.

We provide three RPMs (RPM Package Manager) that enable Rancher products to function properly on SELinux-enforcing hosts: rancher-selinux, rke2-selinux and k3s-selinux. For details, see this page.

The Rancher Hardening Guide is based on controls and best practices found in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark from the Center for Internet Security.

The hardening guides provide prescriptive guidance for hardening a production installation of Rancher. See Rancher’s guides for Self Assessment of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark for the full list of security controls.

Each version of the hardening guide is intended to be used with specific versions of the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, Kubernetes, and Rancher.

The benchmark self-assessment is a companion to the Rancher security hardening guide. While the hardening guide shows you how to harden the cluster, the benchmark guide is meant to help you evaluate the level of security of the hardened cluster.

This guide walks through the various controls and provide updated example commands to audit compliance in Rancher created clusters. The original benchmark documents can be downloaded from the CIS website.

Each version of Rancher’s self-assessment guide corresponds to specific versions of the hardening guide, Rancher, Kubernetes, and the CIS Benchmark.

Rancher periodically hires third parties to perform security audits and penetration tests of the Rancher software stack. The environments under test follow the Rancher provided hardening guides at the time of the testing. Previous penetration test reports are available below.

Results:

Please note that new reports are no longer shared or made publicly available.

Rancher is committed to informing the community of security issues in our products. For the list of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) for issues we have resolved, refer to this page.

For recommendations on securing your Kubernetes cluster, refer to the Kubernetes Cluster Security Best Practices guide.

For recommendations on securing your Rancher Manager deployments, refer to the Rancher Security Best Practices guide.

Rancher uses the following Kubernetes distributions:

To harden a Kubernetes cluster that’s running a distribution other than those listed, refer to your Kubernetes provider’s docs.