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How to use AWS SSO to access K8S

Prerequisites​

  • Complete Setup AWS SSO
  • Install kubectl(for Kubernetes CLI access)
  • Install Lens(Kubernetes GUI access) or OpenLens(Opensource build of Lens)
  • Install helm (for deploy backend service)

Setup kubeconfig​

  • Login to aws sso profile
  • Run following command:
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name <cluster_name> --alias <cluster_name> --profile <profile_name>
  • To verify, run command kubectl get pods --context <cluster_name>
  • To run helm with specific cluster, add --kube-context <cluster_name> parameter. Ex. helm list --kube-context <cluster_name>

Config namespace for Lens​

If you can’t see anything after add new cluster config, that means you don't have permissions to access whole cluster resources

  • Go to cluster setting. Lens cluster setting
  • Add namespaces to Accessible Namespaces section. Lens namespace setting