kiam runs as an agent on each node in your Kubernetes cluster and allows cluster users to associate IAM roles with Pods. [a] role is similar to a user, in that it is an AWS identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can and cannot do in AWS. However, instead of being uniquely associated with one person, a role is intended to be assumed by anyone who needs it. Also, a role does not have any credentials (password or access keys) associated with it. Instead, if a user is assigned to a role, access keys are created dynamically and provided to the user.

Features

  • No client SDK modifications are needed: Kiam intercepts Metadata API requests
  • Separated Agent and Server processes. Allows user workloads to run on nodes without sts:AssumeRole permissions to enhance cluster security
  • Denies access to all other AWS Metadata API paths by default (but can be configured via flag)
  • AWS credentials are prefetched to allow fast responses (and avoid problems with races between Pods requesting credentials and the Kubernetes client caches being aware of the Pod)
  • Multi-account IAM support. Pods can assume roles from any AWS account assuming trust relationships permit it
  • Optional regional STS endpoint support

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License

Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Go

Related Categories

Go Container Management Software, Go Identity and Access Management (IAM) Software

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2024-03-27