aws-iam-authenticator & EKS

Question

I've deployed a test EKS cluster with the appropiate configMap, and users that are SSO'd in can access the clusters via exporting session creds (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN etc) and having the aws-iam-authenticator client installed in their terminal. The problem comes in when users attempt to use an aws sso profile stored in ~/.aws/config using the aws-iam-authenticator. The error that's recieved when running any kubectl command is the following:

 $ kubectl get all
    could not get token: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
        For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors

I've tested this on my local machine (AWS CLI v2) and I haven't had any success. I've exported an AWS profile found in the ~/.aws/config file via export AWS_PROFILE=User1 and running aws sts get-caller-identity correctly shows the profile being exported. I've switched between mulitple named profiles and each one gets the correct identity and permissions, however, when running any kubectl command I get the above error. I've also tried symlinking config -> credentials but no luck. The only way it works is if I export the access_key, secret_key, and session_token to the environment variables.

I suppose I can live with having to paste in the dynamic creds that come from AWS SSO, but my need to solve solutions won't let me give up :(. I was following the thread found in this github issue but no luck. The kube config file that I have setup is spec'd to AWS's documentation.

I suspect there may be something off with the aws-iam-authenticator server deployment, but nothing shows in the pod logs. Here's a snippet from the tools github page, which I think I followed correctly, but I did skip step 3 for reasons that I forgot:

The Kubernetes API integrates with AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes using a token authentication webhook. When you run aws-iam-authenticator server, it will generate a webhook configuration file and save it onto the host filesystem. You'll need to add a single additional flag to your API server configuration:

Kube Config File

apiVersion: v1
clusters:
- cluster:
    server: <endpoint-url>
    certificate-authority-data: <base64-encoded-ca-cert>
  name: kubernetes
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: kubernetes
    user: aws
  name: aws
current-context: aws
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users:
- name: aws
  user:
    exec:
      apiVersion: client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1
      command: aws-iam-authenticator
      args:
        - "token"
        - "-i"
        - "eks-cluster-name"
        - "-r"
        - "EKS-ADMIN-ROLE:ARN:::::::"
      env:
        - name: AWS_PROFILE
          value: "USER"

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '20 at 06:08

The AWS CLI v2 now supports AWS SSO so I decided to update my Kube config file to leverage the aws command instead of aws-iam-authenticator. Authentication via SSO is now a breeze! It looks like AWS wanted to get away from having to have an additional binary to be able to authenticate in to EKS clusters which is fine by me! Hope this helps.

aws-iam-authenticator & EKS

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