Amazon EKS Pod Identity: a new way for applications on EKS to obtain IAM credentials
Containers Blog
This article introduces Amazon EKS Pod Identity, a new way for applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to obtain AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials. It provides a streamlined experience to setup IAM permissions for EKS clusters compared to the existing IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) solution.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Introduction to Amazon EKS Pod Identity and its benefits over IRSA
- How EKS Pod Identity works, including the new APIs and Pod Identity agent
- Step-by-step walkthrough to use EKS Pod Identity for granting IAM permissions
- Using IAM session tags with EKS Pod Identity for fine-grained access control
- Cross-account access with EKS Pod Identity
- Comparison of EKS Pod Identity and IRSA features
- Considerations and limitations of using EKS Pod Identity
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