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Compliance · Medium severity

GKE Node Auto-Upgrade Not Configured

Nodes stay on old versions, so published Kubernetes vulnerabilities remain unpatched until someone upgrades them by hand.

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Google Cloudprovider
Mediumseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google CloudKubernetes

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Enable node auto-upgrade on the GKE cluster.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
GKE Clusters on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. Open the GKE cluster in the GCP Console and navigate to Node Pools.
  2. For each node pool, enable Auto-upgrade under the Management section.
  3. Enable Auto-repair as well to automatically replace unhealthy nodes.
  4. Set a maintenance window to control when upgrades are applied.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-120
Full reference

GKE Node Auto-Upgrade Not Configured

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