Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons
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The article discusses a new integration between Amazon EKS add-ons and EKS Pod Identity, which simplifies the process of providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons that need to interact with AWS services outside the Kubernetes cluster.
Specifically, the article covers:
- EKS add-ons that need to interact with AWS services require IAM permissions
- EKS Pod Identities simplify how Kubernetes applications obtain AWS IAM permissions
- The new integration allows managing EKS Pod Identities directly using EKS add-ons operations through the EKS console, CLI, API, eksctl, and IAC tools like AWS CloudFormation
- This integration expands the selection of Pod Identity compatible EKS add-ons available for installation through the EKS console during cluster creation
- The integration is generally available in all commercial AWS regions
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