Kubelet client periodic certificate switch disabled

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Id: 52d70f2e-3257-474c-b3dc-8ad9ba6a061a

Cloud Provider: k8s

Framework: Kubernetes

Severity: Medium

Category: Secret Management

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Description

The kubelet argument --rotate-certificates should be set to true.

Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: command-demo
  labels:
    purpose: demonstrate-command
spec:
  containers:
    - name: command-demo-container
      image: foo/bar
      command: ["kubelet"]
      args: ["--rotate-certificates"]
  restartPolicy: OnFailure

apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
serializeImagePulls: false
evictionHard:
    memory.available:  "200Mi"
rotateCertificates: true

{
    "port": 20250,
    "evictionHard": {
        "memory.available": "200Mi"
    },
    "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
    "rotateCertificates": true,
    "serializeImagePulls": false,
    "address": "192.168.0.8",
    "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1"
}

Non-Compliant Code Examples

apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
serializeImagePulls: false
evictionHard:
    memory.available:  "200Mi"
rotateCertificates: false

{
    "port": 20250,
    "evictionHard": {
        "memory.available": "200Mi"
    },
    "kind": "KubeletConfiguration",
    "makeIPTablesUtilChains": true,
    "address": "192.168.0.8",
    "apiVersion": "kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1"
}

apiVersion: kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: KubeletConfiguration
address: "192.168.0.8"
port: 20250
serializeImagePulls: false
evictionHard:
    memory.available:  "200Mi"