EKS Cluster IAM Policies and Roles
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This section guides a DKP user in creating IAM Policies and Instance Profiles that determines type of access to the cluster. The IAM Role is used by the cluster’s control plane and worker nodes using the provided AWS CloudFormation Stack specific to EKS. This CloudFormation Stack has code for an additional role for EKS not needed in other AWS environments.
Prerequisites:
The user you delegate from your role must have a minimum set of permissions, see User Roles and Instance Profiles page under AWS for details.
Create the Cluster IAM Policies in your AWS account
You will need to have the AWS CLI utility installed.
EKS IAM Artifacts
Policies
controllers-eks.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
- enumerates the Actions required by the workload cluster to create and modify EKS clusters in the user's AWS Account. It is attached to the existingcontrol-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
roleeks-nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
- enumerates the Actions required by the EKS workload cluster’s worker machines. It Is attached to the existingnodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
Roles
eks-controlplane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
- is the Role associated with EKS cluster control planes
NOTE: control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
and nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
roles were created by Cluster IAM Policies and Roles in AWS.
Below is a CloudFormation stack that includes IAM policies and roles required to setup EKS Clusters:
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Parameters:
existingControlPlaneRole:
Type: CommaDelimitedList
Description: 'Names of existing Control Plane Role you want to add to the newly created EKS Managed Policy for AWS cluster API controllers'
Default: control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
existingNodeRole:
Type: CommaDelimitedList
Description: 'ARN of the Nodes Managed Policy to add to the role for nodes'
Default: nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
Resources:
AWSIAMManagedPolicyControllersEKS:
Properties:
Description: For the Kubernetes Cluster API Provider AWS Controllers
ManagedPolicyName: controllers-eks.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
PolicyDocument:
Statement:
- Action:
- 'ssm:GetParameter'
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- 'arn:*:ssm:*:*:parameter/aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/*'
- Action:
- 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
Condition:
StringLike:
'iam:AWSServiceName': eks.amazonaws.com
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- >-
arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS
- Action:
- 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
Condition:
StringLike:
'iam:AWSServiceName': eks-nodegroup.amazonaws.com
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- >-
arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks-nodegroup.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSNodegroup
- Action:
- 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
Condition:
StringLike:
'iam:AWSServiceName': eks-fargate.amazonaws.com
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- >-
arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks-fargate-pods.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSForFargate
- Action:
- 'iam:GetRole'
- 'iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies'
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- 'arn:*:iam::*:role/*'
- Action:
- 'iam:GetPolicy'
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- 'arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSClusterPolicy'
- Action:
- 'eks:DescribeCluster'
- 'eks:ListClusters'
- 'eks:CreateCluster'
- 'eks:TagResource'
- 'eks:UpdateClusterVersion'
- 'eks:DeleteCluster'
- 'eks:UpdateClusterConfig'
- 'eks:UntagResource'
- 'eks:UpdateNodegroupVersion'
- 'eks:DescribeNodegroup'
- 'eks:DeleteNodegroup'
- 'eks:UpdateNodegroupConfig'
- 'eks:CreateNodegroup'
- 'eks:AssociateEncryptionConfig'
- 'eks:ListIdentityProviderConfigs'
- 'eks:AssociateIdentityProviderConfig'
- 'eks:DescribeIdentityProviderConfig'
- 'eks:DisassociateIdentityProviderConfig'
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- 'arn:*:eks:*:*:cluster/*'
- 'arn:*:eks:*:*:nodegroup/*/*/*'
- Action:
- 'ec2:AssociateVpcCidrBlock'
- 'ec2:DisassociateVpcCidrBlock'
- 'eks:ListAddons'
- 'eks:CreateAddon'
- 'eks:DescribeAddonVersions'
- 'eks:DescribeAddon'
- 'eks:DeleteAddon'
- 'eks:UpdateAddon'
- 'eks:TagResource'
- 'eks:DescribeFargateProfile'
- 'eks:CreateFargateProfile'
- 'eks:DeleteFargateProfile'
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- '*'
- Action:
- 'iam:PassRole'
Condition:
StringEquals:
'iam:PassedToService': eks.amazonaws.com
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- '*'
- Action:
- 'kms:CreateGrant'
- 'kms:DescribeKey'
Condition:
'ForAnyValue:StringLike':
'kms:ResourceAliases': alias/cluster-api-provider-aws-*
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- '*'
Version: 2012-10-17
Roles: !Ref existingControlPlaneRole
Type: 'AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy'
AWSIAMManagedEKSNodesPolicy:
Properties:
Description: Additional Policies to nodes role to work for EKS
ManagedPolicyName: eks-nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
PolicyDocument:
Statement:
- Action:
- "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses"
- "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface"
- "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
- "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
- "ec2:DescribeInstances"
- "ec2:DescribeTags"
- "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
- "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes"
- "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface"
- "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute"
- "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses"
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- '*'
- Action:
- "ec2:DescribeInstances"
- "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes"
- "ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
- "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
- "ec2:DescribeSubnets"
- "ec2:DescribeVolumes"
- "ec2:DescribeVolumesModifications"
- "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
- "eks:DescribeCluster"
Effect: Allow
Resource:
- '*'
Version: 2012-10-17
Roles: !Ref existingNodeRole
Type: 'AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy'
AWSIAMRoleEKSControlPlane:
Properties:
AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
Statement:
- Action:
- 'sts:AssumeRole'
Effect: Allow
Principal:
Service:
- eks.amazonaws.com
Version: 2012-10-17
ManagedPolicyArns:
- 'arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSClusterPolicy'
RoleName: eks-controlplane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
Type: 'AWS::IAM::Role'
To create the resources in the cloudformation stack copy the contents above into a file and run the following command after replacing MYFILENAME.yaml
and MYSTACKNAME
with the intended values:
aws cloudformation create-stack --template-body=file://MYFILENAME.yaml --stack-name=MYSTACKNAME --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM