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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. Leverage AWS documentation to ensure that:

  • The cluster meets one of the requirements for using access entries (platform/Kubernetes versions). Read more

  • Ensure that the access entry as a cluster authentication mode is enabled in AWS. Read more

  • Existing aws-auth ConfigMap entries are migrated to access entries. Read more

aws-auth ConfigMap (legacy)

All clusters created before the introduction of access entries have the ConfigMap method enabled. Use aws-auth ConfigMap to provide Cloudaware with access to Kubernetes cluster.

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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To view discovered EKS resources, go to Cloudaware CMDB Navigator → select Amazon Web Services → Compute → EKS.

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