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A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster. A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster. The initial work on this tool was driven by Heptio. The project receives contributions from multiple community engineers and is currently maintained by Heptio and Amazon EKS OSS Engineers. If you are an administrator running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS, you already need to manage AWS IAM credentials to provision and update the cluster. By using AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes, you avoid having to manage a separate credential for Kubernetes access. AWS IAM also provides a number of nice properties such as an out-of-band audit trail (via CloudTrail) and 2FA/MFA enforcement.

Features

Create an IAM role you'll use to identify users
Documentation available
Run the Authenticator server as a DaemonSet
Configure your API server to talk to Authenticator
Set up kubectl to use Authenticator tokens
Create IAM role/user to kubernetes user/group mappings

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License

Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Related Categories

Go Security Software, Go Identity and Access Management (IAM) Software

Registered

2024-03-13

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Tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to Kubernetes clusters

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