Update access entries - Amazon EKS
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Update access entries

You can update an access entry using the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI.

AWS Management Console

  1. Open the Amazon EKS console.

  2. Choose the name of the cluster that you want to create an access entry in.

  3. Choose the Access tab.

  4. Choose the access entry that you want to update.

  5. Choose Edit.

  6. For Username, you can change the existing value.

  7. For Groups, you can remove existing group names or add new group names. If the following groups names exist, don’t remove them: system:nodes or system:bootstrappers. Removing these groups can cause your cluster to function improperly. If you don’t specify any group names and want to use Amazon EKS authorization, associate an access policy in a later step.

  8. For Tags, you can assign labels to the access entry. For example, to make it easier to find all resources with the same tag. You can also remove existing tags.

  9. Choose Save changes.

  10. If you want to associate an access policy to the entry, see Associate access policies with access entries.

AWS CLI

  1. Install the AWS CLI, as described in Installing in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

  2. To update an access entry Replace my-cluster with the name of your cluster, 111122223333 with your AWS account ID, and EKS-my-cluster-my-namespace-Viewers with the name of an IAM role.

    aws eks update-access-entry --cluster-name my-cluster --principal-arn arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/EKS-my-cluster-my-namespace-Viewers --kubernetes-groups Viewers

    You can’t use the --kubernetes-groups option if the type of the access entry is a value other than STANDARD. You also can’t associate an access policy to an access entry with a type other than STANDARD.