Olympus Kubernetes Engine, also known as OKE, is Zaden’s NSA hardened next-generation Kubernetes distribution. It is a fully compliant Kubernetes distribution that focuses on security and compliance within the U.S. Federal Government sector.
To meet these goals, OKE does the following:
Provides defaults and configuration options that allow clusters to pass the CIS
Kubernetes Benchmark v1.6 or v1.23 with minimal operator intervention
Uses images and hardening guidelines based on the NSA and CISA
Kubernetes Hardening Guide
Enables FIPS 140-2 compliance
Regularly scans components for CVEs using trivy, sfyt, grype, and openscap in
our build pipeline