Daily Archives: 08/24/2024

AWS: Kubernetes and External Secrets Operator for AWS Secrets Manager

24 August 2024
 

  We have a new EKS cluster 1.30 on our project, where we want to completely remove the old IRSA with OIDC and start using EKS Pod Identities – see AWS: EKS Pod Identities – a replacement for IRSA? Simplifying IAM access management. And everything seems to work fine, but when I started deploying our… Read More »

AWS: IAM Access Analyzer policy generation – create an IAM Policy

24 August 2024
 

  Quite often for a new project that is just building its infrastructure and CI/CD to do so as an MVP/PoC, and at the beginning, no time is spent on tuning AWS IAM Roles and IAM Policies, but simply connecting AdministratorAccess. Actually, this is exactly what happened in my project, but we are growing, and… Read More »

Terraform: managing EKS Access Entries and EKS Pod Identities

24 August 2024
 

 So, we have an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster with Authentication mode EKS API and ConfigMap, which we enabled during upgrade of the EKS Terraform module from version 19.21 to 20.0. Before switching EKS Authentication mode completely to the API, we need to transfer all users and roles to Access Entries of the EKS cluster… Read More »