AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy

Description: This policy provides the Amazon VPC CNI Plugin (amazon-vpc-cni-k8s) the permissions it requires to modify the IP address configuration on your EKS worker nodes. This permission set allows the CNI to list, describe, and modify Elastic Network Interfaces on your behalf. More information on the AWS VPC CNI Plugin is available here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s

AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

Policy version

Policy version: v5 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonEKSCNIPolicy",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses",
        "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonEKSCNIPolicyENITag",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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