AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes CreateCertificateAuthority API operation.

Syntax

New-EKSCertificateAuthority
-ClusterName <String>
-ClientRequestToken <String>
-Select <String>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonEKSConfig>

Description

Appends a successor certificate authority (CA) to your cluster, beginning the CA rotation process. A cluster certificate authority is the root of trust for your cluster's control plane. It signs the certificates that secure communication between the Kubernetes API server and its clients, and its public certificate is distributed to your cluster's trust bundle so that worker nodes and clients can verify the API server's identity. Each cluster can have at most two certificate authorities at a time: the outgoing CA that's currently signing (its signingStatus is IN_USE) and one successor CA (signingStatus of NOT_USED) that you can later activate to complete the rotation. Appending a successor CA adds its public certificate to the cluster's trust bundle so that the cluster trusts both CAs simultaneously (the dual trust period), but it doesn't begin signing certificates. Amazon EKS then distributes the successor CA to the Amazon Web Services managed components in your cluster; you can track this through the CA's distributionStatus. The successor CA can't be activated until its distributionStatus is COMPLETE. To activate it as the cluster's signer, use ActivateCertificateAuthority. This is an asynchronous operation that returns an update object. If you don't append a successor CA yourself, Amazon EKS appends one automatically before the outgoing CA approaches expiration. For more information, see Rotate the Amazon EKS cluster certificate authority in the Amazon EKS User Guide.

Parameters

-ClientConfig <AmazonEKSConfig>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.EKS.AmazonEKSClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ClientRequestToken <String>
A unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ClusterName <String>
The name of your cluster.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is '*'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EKS.Model.CreateCertificateAuthorityResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.EKS.Model.CreateCertificateAuthorityResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

Amazon.EKS.Model.CreateCertificateAuthorityResponse
This cmdlet returns an Amazon.EKS.Model.CreateCertificateAuthorityResponse object containing multiple properties.
User Guide
Service API Reference
AWS Tools for PowerShell User Guide

Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z