MANUAL OCP (Platform) MAN3: Secrets Management P3
Overview
These checks require reviewing how secrets are stored and consumed. They recommend using external secret management and avoiding environment variables for sensitive data.
Profile: CIS, NIST 800-53 Moderate, PCI-DSS
Type: Manual — these checks require human review and cannot be automated via MachineConfig or CRD.
Checks Requiring Manual Action
secrets-consider-external-storage
Severity: MEDIUM
Not Covered by Certsuite Why this fails: Consider external secret storage
Consider the use of an external secrets storage and management system, instead of using Kubernetes Secrets directly, if you have more complex secret management needs. Ensure the solution requires authentication to access secrets, has auditing of access to and use of secrets, and encrypts secrets. Some solutions also make it easier to rotate secrets.
secrets-no-environment-variables
Severity: MEDIUM
Not Covered by Certsuite Why this fails: Do Not Use Environment Variables with Secrets
Secrets should be mounted as data volumes instead of environment variables.