More Info:

GKE cluster should schedule maintenance windows and exclusions to upgrade predictability and to align updates with off-peak business hours.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the “Schedule Maintenance Windows and Exclusions” misconfiguration in GCP using GCP console, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the GCP Console and navigate to the Compute Engine page.

  2. Select the VM instance that you want to remediate.

  3. Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.

  4. Scroll down to the “Maintenance” section.

  5. Click on the “Edit” button next to “Maintenance window.”

  6. Set a maintenance window for the VM instance. This can be done by selecting a day and time range that works for you.

  7. Click on the “Save” button to save your changes.

  8. Scroll down to the “Exclusion” section.

  9. Click on the “Add Exclusion” button.

  10. In the “Exclusion” dialog box, select the type of exclusion you want to create. You can choose between “Instance”, “Disks”, and “Snapshots”.

  11. Set the parameters for the exclusion. For example, if you want to exclude a disk from maintenance, you can select the disk from the drop-down menu and set the exclusion period.

  12. Click on the “Save” button to save your exclusion.

  13. Repeat steps 9-12 for any additional exclusions you want to create.

  14. Click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

By following these steps, you will have remediated the “Schedule Maintenance Windows and Exclusions” misconfiguration for the selected VM instance in GCP.