Pod networking in Amazon EKS using the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes
Amazon EKS supports native Amazon VPC networking using the Amazon VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes. This plugin:
creates elastic network interfaces (network interfaces) and attaches them to your Amazon EC2 nodes.
assigns a private
IPv4
address from your VPC to each pod and service.
The plugin is an open-source project that is maintained on GitHub. We recommend
familiarizing yourself with the plugin by reading amazon-vpc-cni-k8samazon-vpc-cni-k8s
are expanded on
in Choosing pod networking use cases. The plugin is fully supported for use on
Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters on Amazon.
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