Enabling IAM principal access to your cluster

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/add-user-role.html

system:masters

kubectl describe -n kube-system configmap/aws-auth

apiVersion: v1
data:
  mapRoles: |
    - groups:
      - system:bootstrappers
      - system:nodes
      rolearn: arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/my-role
      username: system:node:Template:EC2PrivateDNSName
    - groups:
      - eks-console-dashboard-full-access-group
      rolearn: arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/my-console-viewer-role
      username: my-console-viewer-role
  mapUsers: |
    - groups:
      - system:masters
      userarn: arn:aws:iam::111122223333:user/admin
      username: admin
    - groups:
      - eks-console-dashboard-restricted-access-group      
      userarn: arn:aws:iam::444455556666:user/my-user
      username: my-user

Activities

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

Related

• aws-iam-authenticator add
• K8s Cluster roles: cluster-admin, admin, edit, view
• AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes configured in aws-auth ConfigMap
• kubectl get roles -A
• kubectl get clusterroles
• kubectl get rolebindings -A
• kubectl describe role your-role-name -n kube-system
• AWS IAM principal
• kubectl get clusterroles
• ServiceNow Kubernetes discovery
• curl $APISERVER/api --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --insecure
• aws sts get-session-token

See also

• system:, system:masters, system:controller:, system:anonymous, system:serviceaccount:, system:serviceaccounts:, system:bootstrappers, system:node, system:nodes, kubectl get clusterroles
• AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes: aws-iam-authenticator: [token | verify | add | init | server | version | --help], configmap/aws-auth, AmazonEKSAdminPolicy, AmazonEKSClusterAdminPolicy
• AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes: aws-auth, kubectl edit -n kube-system configmap/aws-auth, eksctl create iamidentitymapping, mapUsers:, mapRoles:, mapAccounts:
• Kubernetes RBAC kubectl auth, kubectl auth can-i, kubectl auth reconcile kubectl create [ role | clusterrole | clusterrolebinding | rolebinding | serviceaccount ], groups:, Kubernetes RBAC good practices, kube2iam, K8s Cluster roles, rbac.authorization.k8s.io, system: