Announcing Kubectl EKS Plugin v0.1.0

Hello everyone, It’s my pleasure to announce the v0.1.0 release of the Kubectl EKS Plugin. I had this of the kubectl plugin for EKS from the day I started using Amazon EKS. But I finally made it into reality and cut the first release.

The mission of the kubectl EKS plugin is to simplify operations and provide easy access to cluster-related information.

The first release of kubectl-eks has few but convenient functionalities. I am excited about this project and hope to see more features in the upcoming months.

Installing the plugin

• Go to the release page here and download the respective binary. For example, On Linux,

$ wget https://github.com/surajincloud/kubectl-eks/releases/download/v0.1.0/kubectl-eks_0.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf kubectl-eks_0.1.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
$ mv kubectl-eks ~/.local/bin # you can move to any $PATH of your choice

• Build it from the source

$ git clone https://github.com/surajincloud/kubectl-eks
$ cd kubectl-eks
$ make
$ mv kubectl-eks ~/.local/bin # you can move to any $PATH of your choice

Let’s Explore

• List EKS nodes but differently, and it shows more information.

$ kubectl eks nodes
NAME                                           ARCH      INSTANCE-TYPE     OS        CAPACITY-TYPE     REGION         AGE
ip-1-5-1-4.eu-west-1.compute.internal          amd64     r5n.2xlarge       linux     SPOT              eu-west-1a     14h
ip-1-5-1-9.eu-west-1.compute.internal          amd64     r5.2xlarge        linux     ON_DEMAND         eu-west-1a     2d5h

• List all IRSA. It shows the list of all serviceaccount with their IAM Role and Token expiration time.

$ kubectl eks irsa -n cloud
NAMESPACE     SERVICEACCOUNT        IAM-ROLE                                                                  TOKEN-EXPIRATION
cloud         test-1                arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/test-1                                     86400
cloud         test-2                arn:aws:iam::222222222222:role/test-2                                     86400

Note: If you don’t pass the flag, it will list from all namespaces.

• This feature is most exciting for me as I no longer need to install the AWS SSM plugin or search for instance id. I can use the following command for SSM access to EKS Node.

$ kubectl eks ssm ip-1-5-1-4.eu-west-1.compute.internal
SSM into node i-022357dcxxxxx
sh-4.2$

In upcoming releases, we will see more exciting stuff in this kubectl eks plugin.

Check out the GitHub repo here.

Please give it a go, and I hope you find it helpful. If you like the project, consider Starring it.

If you have any feature requests, Feel free to fill out a GitHub issue and contribute.

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