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The article explains how to provide access to Amazon EKS Cluster for Cloudaware to discover EKS resources (pods, nodes, etc) automatically. Read more

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Access entries

Use access entries to manage the Kubernetes permissions of IAM principals from outside the cluster.

The Note that the cluster must meet one of the following requirements: a platform version that is equal to or later than those listed in the table below, or a Kubernetes version that is equal to or newer than those listed. Otherwise, use aws-auth ConfigMap option. Read more

Kubernetes version

Platform version

1.30

eks.2

1.29

eks.1

1.28

eks.6

1.27

eks.10

1.26

eks.11

1.25

eks.12

1.24

eks.15

1.23

eks.17

To begin using access entries, change the authentication mode of the cluster to either the API_AND_CONFIG_MAP or API modes. Note that once the access entry method is enabled, it cannot be disabled. Read more

Migrate existing aws-auth ConfigMap entries to access entries. Read more

aws-auth ConfigMap (legacy)

Use aws-auth ConfigMap to manage the Kubernetes permissions of IAM principals from inside the cluster. For that, provide Provide Cloudaware with read access to Kubernetes API on a cluster level using the Cloudaware Collector IAM role.

Full access

1. Ensure that the AWS credentials that Kubectl is using are already authorized for your cluster (the IAM user who created the cluster has the required permissions by default). Open the aws-auth:

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