Managing aws_auth ConfigMap with the AWS EKS Terraform module

1 · Antti · March 16, 2023, 9:47 a.m.
What is the aws_auth and why does it exist? Link to heading Unlike AKS, by default AWS EKS uses AWS authentication tokens for managing access to the cluster. This is great - it improves security significantly - but it comes with some side-effects that trip up a lot of people at first, myself included. This is because the cluster maintains its own access control list - in this aws_auth ConfigMap - that describes who can do what within the cluster, and by default only the specific AWS user who cre...