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Lightspin EKS Creation Engine - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1 - What are the minimal IAM permissions I need to use ECE?

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                "eks:AssociateEncryptionConfig",
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                "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences",
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2 - Can I manage State with ECE?

No, not at this time. There is no inherent state concept nor drift detection in ECE.

3 - Can I interact with my EKS Clusters with tools other than ECE?

Yes! You can continue to use ekstcl, boto3, the AWS CLI and other methods to interact with your EKS Clusters. This may be required for the build out of additional post-hoc infrastructure such as adding Nodegroups or increasing the Nodecount.

4 - Can I authorized other IAM Users or Roles? Such as a federate IAM Role or otherwise into the Cluster?

Yes! Use the --addtl_auth_principals argument and provide a comma-seperated list of IAM Principal ARNs (Roles & Users) to add to the system:masters group within your kube-config.

5 - Will my kubectl context be changed?

Yes. Upon creation of your Cluster, the AWS CLI command aws eks update-kubeconfig --region $AWS_REGION --name $CLUSTER_NAME is used to change your kubectl context for your newly created Cluster. To switch between different EKS Clusters, created by ECE or otherwise, use the command kubectl config get-contexts to see available contexts and finally use kubectl config use-context $CONTEXT_NAME to change your context with kubectl directly.

6 - Will using ECE send any data to Lightspin?

No! ECE is available freely under Apache-2.0 and will not "phone home" or send any data back to us.

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For more information, contact us at support@lightspin.io.

License ✳️ ✳️

This repository is available under the Apache License 2.0.