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EKS Pod Identity Agent
The Amazon EKS Pod Identity Agent Amazon EKS add-on provides the ability to manage credentials for your applications, similar to the way that EC2 instance profiles provide credentials to EC2 instances.
The Amazon EKS add-on name is eks-pod-identity-agent
.
Required IAM permissions
This add-on users permissions from the Amazon EKS node IAM role.
Update information
You can
only update one minor version at a time. For example, if your current
version is
1.28.
and you want to update to
x
-eksbuild.y
1.30.
,
then you must update your current version to
x
-eksbuild.y
1.29.
and then update it again to
x
-eksbuild.y
1.30.
.
For more information about updating the add-on, see Updating the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes Amazon EKS add-on.x
-eksbuild.y