Configuration Auditing

As your organization deploys containerized workloads in Kubernetes environments, you will be faced with many configuration choices related to images, containers, control plane, and data plane. Setting these configurations improperly creates a high-impact security and compliance risk. DevOps, and platform owners need the ability to continuously assess build artifacts, workloads, and infrastructure against configuration hardening standards to remediate any violations.

Starboard configuration audit capabilities are purpose-built for Kubernetes environments. In particular, Starboard Operator continuously checks images, workloads, and Kubernetes infrastructure components against common configurations security standards and generates detailed assessment reports, which are then stored in the default Kubernetes database.

Kubernetes applications and other core configuration objects, such as Ingress, NetworkPolicy, ResourceQuota, RBAC resources, are evaluated against Built-in Policies. Beyond that, cluster nodes are constantly assessed against the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks with the kube-bench Infrastructure Scanner. The results of all these scans are stored as ConfigAuditReport, ClusterConfigAuditReport, and CISKubeBenchReport resources, which could be further aggregated into a ClusterComplianceReport such as NSA, CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance.

Additionally, application and infrastructure owners can integrate these reports into incident response workflows for active remediation.