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kubernetes-sigs / aws-iam-authenticator

aws-iam-authenticator

A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:01:28 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-11-29 18:26:49 UTC to 2022-05-17 15:12:50 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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bearforcenine·Oct 6, 2018
>we need to set up a way to manage AWS IAM credentials to Kubernetes pods... In a production system, this should be done using a tool such as kube2iam or kiam... I am curious if AWS has any plans to build an IAM integration for K8s that provides IAM credentials/roles directly to pods. An integration through EKS or K8s directly would make interacting with AWS resources very easy. Being able to authenticate to the K8s cluster using https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator is nice, but it doesn't help give pods IAM roles.
In AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
kronin·Jan 28, 2018
You can use IAM to auth to a cluster using heptio authenticator https://github.com/heptio/authenticator/blob/master/README.m... You can grant IAM roles to individual pods running in k8s using kube2iam, though there are new advancements seemingly coming, or already out, now that amazon has announced eks. https://github.com/jtblin/kube2iam Kops can provision and manage a cluster that incorporates multiple subnets allowing you to have a multi-az buildout https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/high_ava...
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