aquasecurity / kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
- Stars
- 8,259 stars
- Forks
- 1,348 forks
- Language
- Go
- License
- APACHE-2.0
- Created
- Jun 19, 2017
- Last push
- Oct 26, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 10, 2026
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- Kubernetes tool from the readme:
kube-bench is a tool that checks whether Kubernetes is deployed securely by running the checks documented in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
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Admitted to the Repository Index on Nov 10, 2026: 8,256 stars on 2026-11-10.
Star History
185 days recorded, May 11, 2026 – Nov 11, 2026 (UTC). Net change +250 stars.
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It gained stars on 129 of the 185 days recorded since May 11, 2026.
Its largest 7 days were May 30, 2026 to Jun 5, 2026: 17 stars.
In the 30 days to Nov 11, 2026 it got 44 stars, 5% more than in the 30 days before.
It had 8,009 stars before May 11, 2026 and has 8,259 stars now: 1,741 fewer than 10,000.
- Created on the Repository Host
- Release v0.15.3
- Release v0.15.4
- Release v0.15.5
- Release v0.15.6
- +4 stars in one day
- Release v0.16.0
- Latest push
- +5 stars in one day
- Largest star day recorded: +6 stars
- Entered the Repository Index: 8,256 stars on 2026-11-10
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Forks and pushes
From 2 Observations, Nov 11, 2026 – Nov 12, 2026. Forks 0. AwesomeRepos saw a new push on 0 of 1 days.
- Nov 12, 2026: no new push
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Maintenance
2 of 4 checks (2 without data)-
Yes: Not archived
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Yes: A push in the last 90 days
Last push on 2026-10-26, 16 days ago. Source
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Releases
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Yes: A release in the last 365 days
Newest release v0.16.0 on 2026-08-05, 99 days ago. 7 releases in the last 365 days. Source
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Yes: The newest release tag is a semantic version
The newest release tag is v0.16.0. Source
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Dependencies in the index
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The GitHub dependency graph of this repository names 32 direct packages (scanned on Nov 12, 2026). Packages from 11 other repositories in the index are among them.
No scanned repository names a package from this repository.
Uses (in the index) · 11
- spf13/cobra 45K
Go: github.com/spf13/cobra
- go-gorm/gorm 40K
Go: gorm.io/gorm
- spf13/viper 31K
Go: github.com/spf13/viper
- stretchr/testify 26K
Go: github.com/stretchr/testify
- kubernetes/client-go 9.9K
Go: k8s.io/client-go
- onsi/ginkgo 9.1K
Go: github.com/onsi/ginkgo
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- pkg/errors 8.3K
Go: github.com/pkg/errors
- fatih/color 8K
Go: github.com/fatih/color
- aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 3.7K
Go: github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/securityhub
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- golang/glog 3.6K
Go: github.com/golang/glog
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Observations
Latest Observation, Nov 12, 2026: 8,259 stars, 1,348 forks, last push Oct 26, 2026, not archived. One of 2 Observations since Nov 11, 2026.