Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks are the security configuration best practices that are accepted by industry experts. The CIS Benchmark guide can be download as a PDF file from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) website at https://www.cisecurity.org/. kube-bench is an application that automates documented checks.

In this section, we will cover the installation and use of the open source kube-bench tool to run Kubernetes CIS Benchmarks for security auditing of Kubernetes clusters.