---
id: benchmark/caring/kubernetes-rbac/readme
title: CARING Kubernetes RBAC Benchmark Workspace
status: candidate
created_by_workplan: ITC-WP-0010
---

# CARING Kubernetes RBAC Benchmark

This workspace analyzes Kubernetes RBAC as a CARING benchmark, not as a
shortcut profile. It is designed to stress access-governance orthogonality
across Access Control, Organization, Governance, Security, Landscape,
DevSecOps, Network, Observability, Task, and Tagging.

The benchmark keeps Kubernetes native constructs separate from CARING meaning:

- `Role` and `ClusterRole` are rule bundles or capability profiles, not
  automatically CARING canonical roles.
- `RoleBinding` and `ClusterRoleBinding` are grants or assignments.
- `ServiceAccount` is a service subject and a workload identity anchor.
- `Namespace` is a useful scope signal, but it is not automatically a tenant
  boundary.

Indexed benchmark artifacts:

- `benchmark.yaml`
- `native-concepts.yaml`
- `caring-mapping.yaml`
- `access-descriptors.yaml`
- `findings-and-canon-pressure.yaml`