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kube-bench vs KubeArmor

kube-bench

github.com

KubeArmor

kubearmor.io

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Figurekube-benchKubeArmor
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
LinuxYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published01
Spec score · Container Security Software5.6 (#22)8.6 (#4)
Spec score · Kubernetes Security Software5.7 (#23)8.6 (#3)

Plans

kube-bench

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KubeArmor

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kube-bench

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KubeArmor

KubeArmor is an open-source runtime security system for enforcing policies on cloud-native workloads. It uses Linux Security Modules such as AppArmor, SELinux, and BPF-LSM, with eBPF for alerts, telemetry, and container-process tracking. Policies can restrict process execution, file access, networking operations, and resource use. Container policies support Allow, Audit, and Block actions, with Block as the default; system-call monitoring is audit-only. Kubernetes policies can target pods through labels and label expressions, and rules can match paths, network protocols, capabilities, and system calls. The deployment matrix covers Kubernetes, non-Kubernetes containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal hosts. It lists Kubernetes environments including GKE, AKS, OKE, IKS, EKS, OpenShift, Rancher, and DigitalOcean Kubernetes, but support varies by operating system, architecture, and enforcement mode. Some environments are observability-only, and VMware Tanzu entries are under construction. KubeArmor is a community-governed CNCF Sandbox project. The free plan is free; installation guidance uses Helm and kubectl.

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