aws-iam-authenticator for EKS

aws-iam-authenticator to provide authentication to your EKS cluster using IAM

• . https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator

• Installation: brew install aws-iam-authenticator
• Help: aws-iam-authenticator --help

Commands

aws-iam-authenticator token
aws-iam-authenticator verify
aws-iam-authenticator add
aws-iam-authenticator init
aws-iam-authenticator server
aws-iam-authenticator version

kubectl config view --minify | grep command
          command: aws-iam-authenticator

Terraform EKS apply output

users:
- name: eks_education-eks-Ry318DCv
 user:
   exec:
     apiVersion: client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1
     command: aws-iam-authenticator
     args:
       - "token"
       - "-i"
       - "education-eks-Ry318DCv"

Activity

• Granting access to an IAM principal to view Kubernetes resources on a cluster

Related

• EKS Terraform
• aws-auth configMap
• aws eks get-token alternative authentication method.
• .kube/config
• aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-eks-cluster-name
• Amazon EKS cluster endpoint

See also

• AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes: aws-iam-authenticator: [token | verify | add | init | server | version | --help], configmap/aws-auth, AmazonEKSAdminPolicy, AmazonEKSClusterAdminPolicy
• EKS RBAC, Amazon EKS authentication, Amazon EKS authorization, aws eks get-token, aws-auth ConfigMap, aws-iam-authenticator, eksctl create iamidentitymapping, eksctl get iamidentitymapping, eks:AccessKubernetesApi, eks-connector, K8s Cluster roles, AmazonEKSAdminPolicy, AmazonEKSClusterAdminPolicy