Amazon EKS open sources Pod Identity agent
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The article announces that Amazon EKS has open sourced the Pod Identity agent, allowing customers to package and deploy the agent into EKS clusters in accordance with their organization's deployment practices.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Pod Identity is an EKS feature that simplifies configuring Kubernetes applications with AWS IAM permissions
- The open sourced Pod Identity agent allows customers to build the agent themselves
- Customers can inspect the source code and perform necessary scans as part of their build process
- Options for packaging and deploying the agent, such as a custom EKS AMI, container image, Helm chart, or Kubernetes manifest
- The GitHub repository containing the source code and instructions for building the Pod Identity agent
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