3 years ago

Category: Kubernetes, Jenkins, automation

AWS is renowned for its robustness and flexibility, and one of the reasons for that is the fact that it has an extensive set of APIs and automation tools. AWS APIs are not just handy for managing cloud environments, but also for integrating the services within AWS and cloud-native applications running on top of it.

That is no longer the case now that IAM Roles for Service Accounts, or IRSA, is available. Rather than compromising security by giving worker nodes more permissions, you can now ask services to communicate with AWS APIs directly.

Before you plan your use of IRSA with services running in the cloud, be sure to check the required SDK version.