EKS Pod Identity Agent - Amazon EKS
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EKS Pod Identity Agent

The Amazon EKS Pod Identity Agent Amazon EKS add-on provides the ability to manage credentials for your applications, similar to the way that EC2 instance profiles provide credentials to EC2 instances.

The Amazon EKS add-on name is eks-pod-identity-agent.

Required IAM permissions

This add-on users permissions from the Amazon EKS node IAM role.

Update information

You can only update one minor version at a time. For example, if your current version is 1.28.x-eksbuild.y and you want to update to 1.30.x-eksbuild.y, then you must update your current version to 1.29.x-eksbuild.y and then update it again to 1.30.x-eksbuild.y. For more information about updating the add-on, see Updating the Amazon EKS add-on.