Evaluate the compliance of your Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters

Before you begin

Before you get started with this tutorial, be sure you have the prerequisites:

• An IBM Cloud account

• A Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster

• The required permissions:

  Table 1. Required user permissions

  Service	Required role	Reason
  Security and Compliance Center	Compliance Management	Needed to enable a service-to-service authorization To view this role, you must be assigned the Administrator role for the service
  Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	Manager	Required to install OSCO

Enable an authorization

To ensure that the services can talk with each other, create a service-to-service authorization between Security and Compliance Center and Kubernetes Service. To create this policy, you must have the Administrator platform role for the Security and Compliance Center service.

1. In the IBM Cloud console, go to Manage > Access (IAM) and select Authorizations.
2. Click Create.
3. If you're working in an enterprise account, select the account which has the cluster with OSCO deployed in it as the Source account.
4. Select Security and Compliance Center in the Source drop-down and choose All resources as the scope.
5. Select Kubernetes Service in the Target drop-down. Optionally, you can narrow the focus by selecting specific resources that you want to target.
6. Select Platform access as Compliance Management and click Authorize.

If you are scanning Satellite resources, you must also enable an authorization for Satellite.

Install the OSCO

Before you can start evaluating your resources, the OSCO must be installed to your cluster. For help with installing it, see the documentation. When you deploy the OSCO, a bundle of predefined profiles is automatically installed and available for you to scan your resources with. In the next section, you select the profile that you want to use.

Scan your resources

To scan your resources, you create an attachment between the resource that you want to evaluate and the profile that you want to use to run the evaluation. To create an attachment, you can use the following steps.

1. In Profiles section of the UI, select IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes OCP4. A details page opens.

   Optionally, you can use the IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes OCP4 profile to create a custom profile with a subset of the controls.

2. In the Attachments tab, click Create.

3. Target your resources by selecting a Scope. Optionally, you can choose to exclude portions of your selected scope to ensure that they are not included in your scan.

4. Click Next.

5. Unless your profile contains additional controls, you can skip the Parameters tab by clicking Next.

6. Toggle Enable scan to On to ensure that the scan runs.

7. Select the frequency at which you want to evaluate your resource. Options include, Every day, Every 7 days, and Every 30 days.

8. Optionally, you can enable notifications.

9. Click Next. Review your selections and click Create.

Next steps

When the scan completes, your results become available in the Security and Compliance Center dashboard. Be sure to check back in a few hours to see what your results returned.