AWS EKS Addons

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-add-ons.html

• eks-pod-identity-agent
• aws-efs-csi-driver
• Amazon CloudWatch Observability agent: amazon-cloudwatch-observability
• AWS Load Balancer Controller add-on
• CoreDNS add-on
• kube-proxy add-on
• Calico add-on, network policy
• vpc-cni
• adot ADOT Operator
• Kubecost
• Teleport
• Amazon GuardDuty for EKS: aws-guardduty-agent
• Amazon EKS Pod Identity Agent
• Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI Driver
• grafana-labs_kubernetes-monitoring

CSIDrivers

• aws-ebs-csi-driver (Mar 2022) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ebs-csi-driver-is-now-generally-available-in-amazon-eks-add-ons/

From vendors:

• Dynatrace, Kpow, Kubecost, Teleport, Tetrate, Upbound, Datree, Kasten, HA Proxy

Community:

• Kubernetes Metrics Server
• kube-state-metrics
• Prometheus Node Exporter
• Cert Manager
• External DNS
• Fluent Bit

Commands

List installed addons:

• aws eks list-addons

List available addons:

• aws eks describe-addon-versions --output text | grep ADDONS
• aws eks create-addon
• kubectl get pods -n kube-system

Errors

• Error: waiting for EKS Add-On

Related

• AWS EKS Cluster Identity Provider Configuration
• K8s addons
• helm repo add eks https://aws.github.io/eks-charts
• Terraform resource: aws_eks_addon
• Terraform EKS module addons: cluster_addons
• kubernetes_storage_class_v1
• minikube addons
• EKS best practices
• Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform

See also

• aws eks [ list-updates | list-addons | create-addon | update-addon | describe-addon-versions ]
• AWS EKS Addons: best practices, vpc-cni, kube-proxy, coredns, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-guardduty-agent, amazon-cloudwatch-observability, aws eks describe-addon-versions, aws eks create-addon, aws eks list-addons, Managed

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/community-addons.html