Amazon EKS Concepts

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Internal

Overview

EKS Cluster

Control Plane

Managed Worker Node Group

Node Group Name

EKS Worker Node

EKS Worker Node IAM Role

Cluster Service Role

Cluster Autoscaler

Cluster Endpoint

AWS Infrastructure Requirements

TODO: Topology diagram

Cluster VPC

Subnets

Security Groups

A dedicated security group for each cluster control plane is recommended.

Integration with ECR

Logging

SLA

https://aws.amazon.com/eks/sla/

aws-iam-authenticator

Page 17.

aws-iam-authenticator Operations

aws-iam-authenticator

.kube/config Configuration

AWS documentation refers to the Kubernetes configuration file as "kubeconfig".

.kube/config

EKS Security

EKS IAM Permissions

These are technically "actions", but they are commonly referred to as "permissions", which implies that the action is part of a formal permission construct associated with the entity requiring it.

  • eks:DescribeCluster