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13 changes: 3 additions & 10 deletions vcluster/_partials/deploy/fips-config.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -12,17 +12,10 @@ controlPlane:
embedded: true
distro:
k8s: # FIPS support is only available for the k8s distribution
version: v1.28.14
enabled: true
apiServer:
image:
repository: loft-sh/kubernetes-fips
controllerManager:
image:
repository: loft-sh/kubernetes-fips
scheduler:
image:
repository: loft-sh/kubernetes-fips
image:
repository: loft-sh/kubernetes-fips
tag: v1.28.14
hostPathMapper:
enabled: true
statefulSet:
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19 changes: 10 additions & 9 deletions vcluster/deploy/security/fips.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ Information Processing Standards (FIPS) to ensure the security and
interoperability of computer systems used by the U.S. government.

FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. Federal Government security standard used to approve
cryptographic modules. This document explains how vCluster Pro and all its components
cryptographic modules. This document explains how vCluster and all its components
are built with FIPS-validated cryptographic libraries.

## Use of FIPS compatible Go toolchain

vCluster Pro is written in [Go](https://go.dev/), and the FIPS-compliant builds
vCluster is written in [Go](https://go.dev/), and the FIPS-compliant builds
are compiled using the `GOEXPERIMENT=boringcrypto` environment variable.

This directs the Go compiler to replace the standard Go crypto libraries with the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ The list below contains components built in a FIPS-compliant manner:
<br />

:::caution
vCluster Pro currently does not provide FIPS-compliant builds of
vCluster currently does not provide FIPS-compliant builds of
CoreDNS or Helm. One must use the integrated CoreDNS feature
of vCluster Pro.
of vCluster.
:::

### FIPS vCluster Pro Images
### FIPS vCluster Images

The vCluster Pro FIPS-compliant images can be found in our [GitHub Container Registry](https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster-pro/pkgs/container/vcluster-pro-fips).
The vCluster FIPS-compliant images can be found in our [GitHub Container Registry](https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster-pro/pkgs/container/vcluster-pro-fips).

## Running vCluster FIPS-compliant
## Run a FIPS-compliant vCluster

To run vCluster in a FIPS environment, one has to reconfigure the
repositories used to reference the FIPS images and enable CoreDNS.

The following is an example of a `vcluster.yaml` file that one can use to create
a FIPS-compliant vCluster Pro instance.
a FIPS-compliant vCluster instance.

```yaml
controlPlane:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ than the current host cluster version, you can do so by setting the `controlPlan
controlPlane:
distro:
k8s:
version: v1.31.1 # or v1.28.14
image:
tag: v1.31.1 # or v1.28.14
```

:::
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