Add User to K8s Cluster

How to give user super admin rights to existing k8s cluster on aws.

Check-user-id-and-arn

List Users Arnoutput

Bash

aws sts get-caller-identity

Bash Session

{
    "UserId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "Account": "XXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::XXXXXXXXXXXX:user/designated_user"
}

Give-user-admin-rights

Add-UserDelete-User

Bash

eksctl create iamidentitymapping --cluster=clustername --arn "arn:aws:iam::xxxxxxxxxxxx:user/username" --group=system:masters --username username

Bash

eksctl delete iamidentitymapping --cluster=clustername --arn "arn:aws:iam:::xxxxxxxxxxxx:user/username"

Client has to do:

Bash

aws eks update-kubeconfig --region <region> --name <cluster-name> --profile <profile-name-default-if-none>