Reviewers: please add notes and GitHub issue links in the right-hand column
2.2.1 Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Capabilities
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Description | Requirement for Basic Profile | Requirement for Network Intensive Profile | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.001 | Max number of vCPU that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure | At least 16 (1) | At least 16 (1) | ra2.ch.011 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.002 | Max memory in MB that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure | at least 32 GB(1) | at least 32 GB(1) | ra2.ch.012 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.003 | Max storage in GB that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure | at least 320 GB(1) | at least 320 GB(1) | ra2.ch.010 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.004 | Max number of connection points that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure | 6 | 6 | ra2.ntw.003 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.005 | Max storage in GB that can be attached / mounted to Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure | Up to 16TB(2) | Up to 16TB(2) | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.006 | CPU pinning support | Not required | Must support | ra2.k8s.009 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.007 | NUMA support | Not required | Must support | ra2.k8s.006 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.008 | IPSec Acceleration using the virtio-ipsec interface | Not required | Optional | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.009 | Crypto Acceleration using the virtio-crypto interface | Not required | Optional | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.010 | Transcoding Acceleration | Not required | Not required | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.011 | Programmable Acceleration | Not required | Not required | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.012 | Enhanced Cache Management: L=Lean; E=Equal; X=eXpanded | E | E | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.013 | SR-IOV over PCI-PT | Not required | Must support | ra2.ch.002 ra2.ch.003 ra2.k8s.007 ra2.ntw.004 ra2.ntw.008 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.014 | Hardware coprocessor support (GPU/NPU) | Not required | Not required | N/A | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.015 | SmartNICs | Not required | Optional | ||
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.016 | FPGA/other Acceleration H/W | Not required | Optional | ra2.k8s.007 ra2.ntw.012 | |
| 4.2.5 | e.cap.017 | Ability to monitor L2-L7 data from workload | n/a(3) | n/a(3) | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.cap.014 | Specifies the proportion of CPU cores consumed by the Cloud Infrastructure system on the worker nodes. If SMT is used, it indicates the number of consumed SMT threads. | 2 | 2 | ra2.k8s.008 | |
| 4.2.5 | i.cap.015 | Indicates the memory consumed by Cloud Infrastructure on the worker nodes | 16 GB | 16GB | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.cap.016 | Number of virtual cores per physical core; also known as CPU overbooking ratio that is required | 1:1 | 1:1 | ra2.ch.004 ra2.ch.005 | |
| 4.2.5 | i.cap.017 | QoS enablement of the connection point (vNIC or interface) | Not required | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.cap.018 | Support for huge pages | Not required | Must support | ra2.ch.001 | |
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.001 | Monitor worker node CPU usage, per nanosecond | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.002 | Monitor pod CPU usage, per nanosecond | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.003 | Monitor worker node CPU utilisation (%) | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.004 | Monitor pod CPU utilisation | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.005 | Measure external storage IOPs | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.006 | Measure external storage throughput | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.5 | i.pm.007 | Measure external storage capacity | Must support | Must support |
2.2.2 Virtual Network Interface Specifications
The required number of connection points to a Pod is described in e.cap.004 above. This section describes the required bandwidth of those connection points.
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Description | Requirement for Basic Profile | Requirement for Network Intensive Profile | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2.2 | n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Gbps | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.2 | nn10, n20, n30, n40, n50, n60 | 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 Gbps | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.2 | n25, n50, n75, n100, n125, n150 | 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 Gbps | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.2 | nn50, n100, n150, n200, n250, n300 | 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300 Gbps | Must support | Must support | ||
| 4.2.2 | n100, n200, n300, n400, n500, n600 | 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 Gbps | Must support | Must support |
Table 2-2: Reference Model Requirements: Network Interface Specifications
2.2.3 Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Requirements
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Description | Requirement for Basic Profile | Requirement for Network Intensive Profile | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2.1 | infra.com.cfg.001 | CPU allocation ratio | 1:1 | 1:1 | ra2.ch.005 ra2.ch.006 | |
| 5.2.1 | infra.com.cfg.002 | NUMA awareness | Must support | Must support | ra2.k8s.006 | |
| 5.2.1 | infra.com.cfg.003 | CPU pinning capability | Not required | Must support | ra2.k8s.009 | |
| 5.2.1 | infra.com.cfg.004 | Huge Pages | Must support | Must support | ra2.ch.001 | |
| 5.2.2 | infra.stg.cfg.002 | Storage Block | Must support | Must support | ra2.stg.004 | |
| 5.2.2 | infra.stg.cfg.003 | Storage with replication | Not required | Must support | ||
| 5.2.2 | infra.stg.cfg.004 | Storage with encryption | Must support | Must support | ||
| 5.2.2 | infra.stg.acc.cfg.001 | Storage IOPS oriented | Not required | Must support | ||
| 5.2.2 | infra.stg.acc.cfg.002 | Storage capacity oriented | Not required | Not required | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.001 | IO virtualisation using virtio1.1 | Must support(1) | Must support(1) | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.002 | The overlay network encapsulation protocol needs to enable ECMP in the underlay to take advantage of the scale-out features of the network fabric.(2) | Must support VXLAN, MPLSoUDP, GENEVE, other | No requirement specified | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.003 | Network Address Translation | Must support | Must support | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.004 | Security Groups | Must support | Must support | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.005 | SFC support | Not required | Must support | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.cfg.006 | Traffic patterns symmetry | Must support | Must support | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.acc.cfg.001 | vSwitch optimisation | Not required | Must support DPDK(3) | ra2.ntw.010 | |
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.acc.cfg.002 | Support of HW offload | Not required | Must support SmartNic | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.acc.cfg.003 | Crypto acceleration | Not required | Must support | ||
| 5.2.3 | infra.net.acc.cfg.004 | Crypto Acceleration Interface | Not required | Must support |
2.2.4 Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Profile Requirements
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Description | Requirement for Basic Profile | Requirement for Network Intensive Profile | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4.1 | infra.hw.cpu.cfg.001 | Minimum number of CPU sockets | 2 | 2 | ra2.ch.008 | |
| 5.4.1 | infra.hw.cpu.cfg.002 | Minimum number of Cores per CPU | 20 | 20 | ra2.ch.008 | |
| 5.4.1 | infra.hw.cpu.cfg.003 | NUMA | Not required | Must support | ra2.k8s.006 | |
| 5.4.1 | infra.hw.cpu.cfg.004 | Simultaneous Multithreading/Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMT/SMP) | Must support | Must support | ra2.ch.004 | |
| 5.4.1 | infra.hw.cac.cfg.001 | GPU | Not required | Not required | ||
| 5.4.2 | infra.hw.stg.hdd.cfg.001 | Local Storage HDD | No requirement specified | No requirement specified | ||
| 5.4.2 | infra.hw.stg.ssd.cfg.002 | Local Storage SSD | Should support | Should support | ra2.ch.009 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.nic.cfg.001 | Total Number of NIC Ports available in the host | 4 | 4 | ra2.ch.013 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.nic.cfg.002 | Port speed specified in Gbps (minimum values) | 10 | 25 | ra2.ch.014 ra2.ch.015 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.pci.cfg.001 | Number of PCIe slots available in the host | 8 | 8 | ra2.ch.016 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.pci.cfg.002 | PCIe speed | Gen 3 | Gen 3 | ra2.ch.016 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.pci.cfg.003 | PCIe Lanes | 8 | 8 | ra2.ch.016 | |
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.nac.cfg.001 | Cryptographic Acceleration | Not required | Optional | ||
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.nac.cfg.002 | A SmartNIC that is used to offload vSwitch functionality to hardware | Not required | Optional(1) | ||
| 5.4.3 | infra.hw.nac.cfg.003 | Compression | No requirement specified | No requirement specified |
Table 2-4: Reference Model Requirements: Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Profile Requirements
(1) There is no vSwitch in case of containers, but a SmartNIC can be used to offload any other network processing.
2.2.5 Cloud Infrastructure Management Requirements
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Description | Requirement (common to all Profiles) | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1.5 | e.man.001 | Capability to allocate virtual compute resources to a workload | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.002 | Capability to allocate virtual storage resources to a workload | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.003 | Capability to allocate virtual networking resources to a workload | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.004 | Capability to isolate resources between tenants | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.005 | Capability to manage workload software images | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.006 | Capability to provide information related to allocated virtualised resources per tenant | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.007 | Capability to notify state changes of allocated resources | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.008 | Capability to collect and expose performance information on virtualised resources allocated | Must support | ||
| 4.1.5 | e.man.009 | Capability to collect and notify fault information on virtualised resources | Must support |
Table 2-5: Reference Model Requirements: Cloud Infrastructure Management Requirements
2.2.6 Cloud Infrastructure Security Requirements
| Reference Model Section | Reference | Requirement (common to all Profiles) | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.001 | The Platform must maintain the specified configuration. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.002 | All systems part of Cloud Infrastructure must support password hardening as defined in CIS Password Policy Guide. Hardening: CIS Password Policy Guide | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.003 | All servers part of Cloud Infrastructure must support a root of trust and secure boot. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.004 | The Operating Systems of all the servers part of Cloud Infrastructure must be hardened by removing or disabling unnecessary services, applications and network protocols, configuring operating system user authentication, configuring resource controls, installing and configuring additional security controls where needed, and testing the security of the Operating System. (NIST SP 800-123) | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.005 | The Platform must support Operating System level access control | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.006 | The Platform must support Secure logging. Logging with root account must be prohibited when root privileges are not required. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.007 | All servers part of Cloud Infrastructure must be Time synchronized with authenticated Time service. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.008 | All servers part of Cloud Infrastructure must be regularly updated to address security vulnerabilities. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.009 | The Platform must support Software integrity protection and verification and mustscan source code and manifests. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.010 | The Cloud Infrastructure must support encrypted storage, for example, block, object and file storage, with access to encryption keys restricted based on a need to know. Controlled Access Based on the Need to Know | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.011 | The Cloud Infrastructure should support Read and Write only storage partitions (write only permission to one or more authorized actors). | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.012 | The Operator must ensure that only authorized actors have physical access to the underlying infrastructure. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.013 | The Platform must ensure that only authorized actors have logical access to the underlying infrastructure. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.014 | All servers part of Cloud Infrastructure should support measured boot and an attestation server that monitors the measurements of the servers. | ||
| 7.9.1 | sec.gen.015 | Any change to the Platform must be logged as a security event, and the logged event must include the identity of the entity making the change, the change, the date and the time of the change. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.001 | The Platform must support authenticated and secure access to API, GUI and command line interfaces. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.002 | The Platform must support Traffic Filtering for workloads (for example, Fire Wall). | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.003 | The Platform must support Secure and encrypted communications, and confidentiality and integrity of network traffic. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.004 | The Cloud Infrastructure must support authentication, integrity and confidentiality on all network channels. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.005 | The Cloud Infrastructure must segregate the underlay and overlay networks. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.006 | The Cloud Infrastructure must be able to utilize the Cloud Infrastructure Manager identity lifecycle management capabilities. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.007 | The Platform must implement controls enforcing separation of duties and privileges, least privilege use and least common mechanism (Role-Based Access Control). | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.008 | The Platform must be able to assign the Entities that comprise the tenant networks to different trust domains. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.009 | The Platform must support creation of Trust Relationships between trust domains. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.010 | For two or more domains without existing trust relationships, the Platform must notallow the effect of an attack on one domain to impact the other domains either directly or indirectly. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.011 | The Platform must not reuse the same authentication credential (e.g., key-pair) on different Platform components (e.g., on different hosts, or different services). | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.012 | The Platform must protect all secrets by using strong encryption techniques, and storing the protected secrets externally from the component | (e.g., in OpenStack Barbican). | |
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.013 | The Platform must provide secrets dynamically as and when needed. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.014 | The Platform should use Linux Security Modules such as SELinux to control access to resources. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.015 | The Platform must not contain back door entries (unpublished access points, APIs, etc.). | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.016 | Login access to the platform's components must be through encrypted protocols such as SSH v2 or TLS v1.2 or higher. Note: Hardened jump servers isolated from external networks are recommended | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.017 | The Platform must provide the capability of using digital certificates that comply with X.509 standards issued by a trusted Certification Authority. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.018 | The Platform must provide the capability of allowing certificate renewal and revocation. | ||
| 7.9.2 | sec.sys.019 | The Platform must provide the capability of testing the validity of a digital certificate (CA signature, validity period, non revocation, identity). | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.001 | The Platform must support Confidentiality and Integrity of data at rest and in-transit. | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.002 | The Platform should support self-encrypting storage devices. | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.003 | The Platform must support Confidentiality and Integrity of data related metadata. | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.004 | The Platform must support Confidentiality of processes and restrict information sharing with only the process owner (e.g., tenant). | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.005 | The Platform must support Confidentiality and Integrity of process-related metadata and restrict information sharing with only the process owner (e.g., tenant). | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.006 | The Platform must support Confidentiality and Integrity of workload resource utilization (RAM, CPU, Storage, Network I/O, cache, hardware offload) and restrict information sharing with only the workload owner (e.g., tenant). | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.007 | The Platform must not allow Memory Inspection by any actor other than the authorized actors for the Entity to which Memory is assigned (e.g., tenants owning the workload), for Lawful Inspection, and by secure monitoring services. | ||
| 7.9.3 | sec.ci.008 | The Cloud Infrastructure must support tenant networks segregation. | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.001 | The Platform must support Workload placement policy. | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.002 | The Cloud Infrastructure must provide methods to ensure the platform’s trust status and integrity (e.g. remote attestation, Trusted Platform Module). | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.003 | The Platform must support secure provisioning of workloads. | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.004 | The Platform must support Location assertion (for mandated in-country or location requirements). | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.005 | The Platform must support the separation of production and non-production Workloads. | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.006 | The Platform must support the separation of Workloads based on their categorisation (for example, payment card information, healthcare, etc.). | ||
| 7.9.4 | sec.wl.007 | The Operator should implement processes and tools to verify VNF authenticity and integrity. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.001 | Images from untrusted sources must not be used. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.002 | Images must be scanned to be maintained free from known vulnerabilities. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.003 | Images must not be configured to run with privileges higher than the privileges of the actor authorized to run them. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.004 | Images must only be accessible to authorized actors. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.005 | Image Registries must only be accessible to authorized actors. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.006 | Image Registries must only be accessible over secure networks that enforce authentication, integrity and confidentiality. | ||
| 7.9.5 | sec.img.007 | Image registries must be clear of vulnerable and stale (out of date) versions. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.001 | The Platform must support Secure Provisioning, Availability, and Deprovisioning (Secure Clean-Up) of workload resources where Secure Clean-Up includes tear-down, defense against virus or other attacks. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.002 | Cloud operations staff and systems must use management protocols limiting security risk such as SNMPv3, SSH v2, ICMP, NTP, syslog and TLS v1.2 or higher. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.003 | The Cloud Operator must implement and strictly follow change management processes for Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure Manager and other components of the cloud, and Platform change control on hardware. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.004 | The Cloud Operator should support automated templated approved changes. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.005 | Platform must provide logs and these logs must be regularly monitored for anomalous behavior. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.006 | The Platform must verify the integrity of all Resource management requests. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.007 | The Platform must be able to update newly instantiated, suspended, hibernated, migrated and restarted images with current time information. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.008 | The Platform must be able to update newly instantiated, suspended, hibernated, migrated and restarted images with relevant DNS information. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.009 | The Platform must be able to update the tag of newly instantiated, suspended, hibernated, migrated and restarted images with relevant geolocation (geographical) information. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.010 | The Platform must log all changes to geolocation along with the mechanisms and sources of location information (i.e. GPS, IP block, and timing). | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.011 | The Platform must implement Security life cycle management processes including the proactive update and patching of all deployed Cloud Infrastructure software. | ||
| 7.9.6 | sec.lcm.012 | The Platform must log any access privilege escalation. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.001 | Platform must provide logs and these logs must be regularly monitored for events of interest. The logs must contain the following fields: event type, date/time, protocol, service or program used for access, success/failure, login ID or process ID, IP address and ports (source and destination) involved. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.002 | Security logs must be time synchronised. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.003 | The Platform must log all changes to time server source, time, date and time zones. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.004 | The Platform must secure and protect Audit logs (containing sensitive information) both in-transit and at rest. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.005 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit various behaviours of connection and login attempts to detect access attacks and potential access attempts and take corrective actions accordingly. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.006 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit operations by authorized account access after login to detect malicious operational activity and take corrective actions accordingly. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.007 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit security parameter configurations for compliance with defined security policies. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.008 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit externally exposed interfaces for illegal access (attacks) and take corrective security hardening measures. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.009 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit service handling for various attacks (malformed messages, signalling flooding and replaying, etc.) and take corrective actions accordingly. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.010 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit running processes to detect unexpected or unauthorized processes and take corrective actions accordingly. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.011 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit logs from infrastructure elements and workloads to detected anomalies in the system components and take corrective actions accordingly. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.012 | The Platform must Monitor and Audit Traffic patterns and volumes to prevent malware download attempts. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.013 | The monitoring system must not affect the security (integrity and confidentiality) of the infrastructure, workloads, or the user data (through back door entries). | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.014 | The Monitoring systems should not impact IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS SLAs including availability SLAs. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.015 | The Platform must ensure that the Monitoring systems are never starved of resources and must activate alarms when resource utilisation exceeds a configurable threshold. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.016 | The Platform Monitoring components should follow security best practices for auditing, including secure logging and tracing. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.017 | The Platform must audit systems for any missing security patches and take appropriate actions. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.018 | The Platform, starting from initialization, must collect and analyze logs to identify security events, and store these events in an external system. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.019 | The Platform’s components must not include an authentication credential, e.g., password, in any logs, even if encrypted. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.020 | The Platform’s logging system must support the storage of security audit logs for a configurable period of time. | ||
| 7.9.7 | sec.mon.021 | The Platform must store security events locally if the external logging system is unavailable and shall periodically attempt to send these to the external logging system until successful. | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.001 | The Cloud Operator should comply with Center for Internet Security CIS Controls (https://www.cisecurity.org/) | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.002 | The Cloud Operator, Platform and Workloads should follow the guidance in the CSA Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing (latest version) https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/ | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.003 | The Platform and Workloads should follow the guidance in the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series (OCSS) https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.004 | The Cloud Operator, Platform and Workloads should ensure that their code is not vulnerable to the OWASP Top Ten Security Risks https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.005 | The Cloud Operator, Platform and Workloads should strive to improve their maturity on the OWASP Software Maturity Model (SAMM) https://owaspsamm.org/blog/2019/12/20/version2-community-release/ | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.006 | The Cloud Operator, Platform and Workloads should utilize the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide https://github.com/OWASP/wstg/tree/master/document | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.007 | The Cloud Operator, and Platform should satisfy the requirements for Information Management Systems specified in ISO/IEC 27001 https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:27001:ed-2:v1:en. ISO/IEC 27002:2013 - ISO/IEC 27001 is the international Standard for best-practice information security management systems (ISMSs). | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.008 | The Cloud Operator, and Platform should implement the Code of practice for Security Controls specified ISO/IEC 27002:2013 (or latest) https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:27002:ed-2:v1:en | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.009 | The Cloud Operator, and Platform should implement the ISO/IEC 27032:2012 (or latest) Guidelines for Cybersecurity techniques https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:27032:ed-1:v1:en. ISO/IEC 27032 - ISO/IEC 27032is the international Standard focusing explicitly on cybersecurity. | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.010 | The Cloud Operator should conform to the ISO/IEC 27035 standard for incidence management. ISO/IEC 27035 - ISO/IEC 27035 is the international Standard for incident management. | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.011 | The Cloud Operator should conform to the ISO/IEC 27031 standard for business continuity. ISO/IEC 27031 - ISO/IEC 27031 is the international Standard for ICT readiness for business continuity. | ||
| 7.9.8 | sec.std.012 | The Public Cloud Operator must, and the Private Cloud Operator may be certified to be compliant with the International Standard on Awareness Engagements (ISAE) 3402 (in the US: SSAE 16). International Standard on Awareness Engagements (ISAE) 3402. US Equivalent: SSAE16. |
Table 2-6: Reference Model Requirements: Cloud Infrastructure Security Requirements
2.3 Kubernetes Architecture Requirements
The Reference Model (RM) defines the Cloud Infrastructure, which consists of the physical resources, virtualised resources and a software management system. In the virtualised world, the Cloud Infrastructure consists of the Guest Operating System, Hypervisor and, if needed, other software such as libvirt. The Cloud Infrastructure Management component is responsible for, among others, tenant management, resources management, inventory, scheduling, and access management.
Now consider the containerisation equivalent, references to "Architecture" in this chapter refer to the Cloud Infrastructure Hardware (e.g. physical resources), Cloud Infrastructure Software (e.g. Hypervisor (optional), Container Runtime, virtual or container Orchestrator(s), Operating System), and infrastructure resources consumed by virtual machines or containers.
The requirements in this section are to be delivered in addition to those in section 2.2, and have been created to support the Principles defined in Chapter 1 of this Reference Architecture.
| Ref # | Category | Sub-category | Description | Specification Reference | Notes and GitHub Issue link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
req.gen.cnt.02 | General | Cloud nativeness | The Architecture must support immutable infrastructure. | ra2.ch.017 | Need Kubernetes reference to definition of immutable Essentially, configuration is not changed once deployed What does this apply to? Workloads? Are there test cases for this? OK |
req.gen.cnt.03 | General | Cloud nativeness | The Architecture must run conformant Kubernetes as defined by the CNCF. | ra2.k8s.001 | OK |
req.gen.cnt.04 | General | Cloud nativeness | The Architecture must support clearly defined abstraction layers. | Seems vague. What does "abstraction layer" mean specifically? Hardware abstraction?
Link to the GitHub issue: https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/issues/2551 NO | |
req.gen.cnt.05 | General | Cloud nativeness | The Architecture should support configuration of all components in an automated manner using openly published API definitions. | ||
req.gen.scl.01 | General | Scalability | The Architecture should support policy driven horizontal auto-scaling of workloads. | ||
req.gen.rsl.01 | General | Resiliency | The Architecture must support resilient Kubernetes components that are required for the continued availability of running workloads. | ra2.k8s.004 | Note: additional detail in link. |
req.gen.rsl.02 | General | Resiliency | The Architecture should support resilient Kubernetes service components that are not subject to req.gen.rsl.01. | ra2.k8s.002 ra2.k8s.003 | OK |
req.gen.avl.01 | General | Availability | The Architecture must provide High Availability for Kubernetes components. | ra2.k8s.002 ra2.k8s.003 ra2.k8s.004 | OK |
req.gen.ost.01 | General | Openness | The Architecture should embrace open-based standards and technologies. | ra2.crt.001 ra2.crt.002 ra2.ntw.002 ra2.ntw.006 ra2.ntw.007 | |
req.inf.com.01 | Infrastructure | Compute | The Architecture must provide compute resources for Pods. | ra2.k8s.004 | OK |
req.inf.stg.01 | Infrastructure | Storage | The Architecture must support the ability for an operator to choose whether or not to deploy persistent storage for Pods. | ra2.stg.004 | OK |
req.inf.ntw.01 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support network resiliency on the Kubernetes nodes. | No link for additional detail. What does "network resiliency mean, specifially?". What is the configuration? How many nodes, etc.
NO | |
req.inf.ntw.02 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support fully redundant network connectivity to the Kubernetes nodes, leveraging multiple network connections. | Seems vague. Need more definition. Possibly redundant to HA requirement. No link. Pankaj says that there is a reference that provides additional detail (ra2.ch.013 Sect 4.2 of the RA-2 document)
https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/issues/2548 NO | |
req.inf.ntw.03 | Infrastructure | Network | The networking solution should be able to be centrally administrated and configured. | ra2.ntw.001 ra2.ntw.004 | |
req.inf.ntw.04 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 for Kubernetes workloads. | ra2.ch.007 ra2.k8s.010 | OK |
req.inf.ntw.05 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support capabilities for integrating SDN controllers. | OK | |
req.inf.ntw.06 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support more than one networking solution. | ra2.ntw.005 ra2.ntw.007 | OK |
req.inf.ntw.07 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support the ability for an operator to choose whether or not to deploy more than one networking solution. | ra2.ntw.005 | OK |
req.inf.ntw.08 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must provide a default network which implements the Kubernetes network model. | ra2.ntw.002 | OK |
req.inf.ntw.09 | Infrastructure | Network | The networking solution must not interfere with or cause interference to any interface or network it does not own. | OK | |
req.inf.ntw.10 | Infrastructure | Network | The Architecture must support Cluster wide coordination of IP address assignment. | Need a link with more detail.
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req.inf.ntw.13 | Infrastructure | Network | The platform must allow specifying multiple separate IP pools. Tenants are required to select at least one IP pool that is different from the control infrastructure IP pool or other tenant IP pools. | More specifics are being developed as a PR. Requires an IPAM CNI Testability is dependent on API. 2 step process 1. Verify existence of the CNI (optional) 2. Test CNI APIs This is ok if there is a common way to test this. OR if the reqs specify a specific implementation. If someone brings another CNI, they must also bring sufficient test cases - i.e. test coverage is a requirement for CNIs to be considered for inclusion in RI/to be "Anuket compliant". OK - Once PR is complete. | |
req.inf.ntw.14 | Infrastructure | Network | The platform must allow NATless traffic (i.e. exposing the pod IP address directly to the outside), allowing source and destination IP addresses to be preserved in the traffic headers from workloads to external networks. This is needed e.g. for signaling applications, using SIP and Diameter protocols. | ra2.ntw.011 |
Cedric to verify and Update this cell. |
req.inf.vir.01 | Infrastructure | Virtual Infrastructure | The Architecture must support the capability for Containers to consume infrastructure resources abstracted by Host Operating Systems that are running within a virtual machine. | ra2.ch.005 ra2.ch.011 | OK |
req.inf.phy.01 | Infrastructure | Physical Infrastructure | The Architecture must support the capability for Containers to consume infrastructure resources abstracted by Host Operating Systems that are running within a physical server. | Bare metal
Opened an Issue # 2557 and PR #2561 for the missing spec for "Bare Metal" add ra2.ch.008 spec to the reqt Per Specification: The physical machines on which the Kubernetes Nodes run must be equipped with at least 2 physical sockets, each of at least 20 CPU cores. | |
req.kcm.gen.01 | Kubernetes Cluster | General | The Architecture must support policy driven horizontal auto-scaling of Kubernetes Cluster. |
Link to the GitHub issue - https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/issues/2563 | |
req.kcm.gen.02 | Kubernetes Cluster | General | The Architecture must enable workload resiliency. | ra2.k8s.004 | 2 Votes OK OK |
req.int.api.01 | API | General | The Architecture must leverage the Kubernetes APIs to discover and declaratively manage compute (virtual and bare metal resources), network, and storage. | For Networking: Compute/storage not yet met. | An Issue is already opened regarding defining/listing Storage types Active PR being worked/not yet approved (2480) John Hartley is working on RM storage Spec and will then work RA1/RA2 |
req.int.api.02 | API | General | The Architecture must support the usage of a Kubernetes Application package manager using the Kubernetes API, like Helm v3. | ra2.pkg.001 | Already part of RC-2 in Functest VIMS 1 line change will be incorporate in RC-2 if the test cases is not disruptive/destructive. OK |
req.int.api.03 | API | General | The Architecture must support stable features in its APIs. | Not Testable. Need to specific a set of stable features/APIs and define what stable means for each API/Feature Consider Removal | |
req.int.api.03 | API | General | The Architecture must support limited backward compatibility in its APIs. Support for the whole API must not be dropped, but the schema or other details can change. | Requirement needs to be rewritten. Vague. May be what K8s would have developed as part of their goals. This is a requirement for the projects. if is a default for K8s why are we specifying it in Anuket. Need a broader audience for context. Next session? |
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