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Node Shielding Enabled

HIGH
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-GCP-0055
terraform

Shielded GKE nodes not enabled.

CIS GKE Benchmark Recommendation: 6.5.5. Ensure Shielded GKE Nodes are Enabled

Shielded GKE Nodes provide strong, verifiable node identity and integrity to increase the security of GKE nodes and should be enabled on all GKE clusters.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Enable node shielding

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resource "google_container_cluster" "good_example" {
  enable_shielded_nodes = "true"
}
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