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# RBAC should be enabled for the Kubernetes API server
 
## Description{% #description %}

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) should be enabled. RBAC allows fine-grained control over the operations that different entities can perform on different objects in the cluster.

## Remediation{% #remediation %}

Edit the API server pod specification file `/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml` on the master node, and set the `--authorization-mode` parameter to a value that includes `RBAC`. For example, `--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC`.