EKS IAM Role for Service Account IRSA Introduction

EKS IAM Role for Service Account IRSA Introduction

November 21, 2021
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Introduces IRSA, IAM Role for Service Account. This allows pods to use IAM Roles to authenticated and use AWS APIs. The advantage is then you don't have to manage and rotate the AWS Access Keys in the future.

You can confirm that IRSA has been set by looking for these env vars in the pod:

AWS_ROLE_ARN
AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE

If IRSA has been setup, these env vars will be set.

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