Minimal User Permission for EKS Cluster Creation

The following is a CloudFormation stack which adds a policy named eks-bootstrapper to manage EKS cluster to the dkp-bootstrapper-role created by the CloudFormation stack for AWS in the Minimal Permissions and Role to Create Cluster section.

Consult the Leveraging the Role section for an example of how to use this role and how a system administrator wants to expose using the permissions.

EKS CloudFormation stack:

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AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Parameters:
  existingBootstrapperRole:
    Type: CommaDelimitedList
    Description: 'Name of existing minimal role you want to add to add EKS cluster management permissions to'
    Default: dkp-bootstrapper-role
Resources:
  EKSMinimumPermissions:
    Properties:
      Description: Minimal user policy to manage eks clusters
      ManagedPolicyName: eks-bootstrapper
      PolicyDocument:
        Statement:
          - Action:
              - 'ssm:GetParameter'
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - 'arn:*:ssm:*:*:parameter/aws/service/eks/optimized-ami/*'
          - Action:
              - 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
            Condition:
              StringLike:
                'iam:AWSServiceName': eks.amazonaws.com
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - >-
                arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS
          - Action:
              - 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
            Condition:
              StringLike:
                'iam:AWSServiceName': eks-nodegroup.amazonaws.com
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - >-
                arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks-nodegroup.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSNodegroup
          - Action:
              - 'iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole'
            Condition:
              StringLike:
                'iam:AWSServiceName': eks-fargate.amazonaws.com
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - >-
                arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks-fargate-pods.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSForFargate
          - Action:
              - 'iam:GetRole'
              - 'iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies'
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - 'arn:*:iam::*:role/*'
          - Action:
              - 'iam:GetPolicy'
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - 'arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSClusterPolicy'
          - Action:
              - 'eks:DescribeCluster'
              - 'eks:ListClusters'
              - 'eks:CreateCluster'
              - 'eks:TagResource'
              - 'eks:UpdateClusterVersion'
              - 'eks:DeleteCluster'
              - 'eks:UpdateClusterConfig'
              - 'eks:UntagResource'
              - 'eks:UpdateNodegroupVersion'
              - 'eks:DescribeNodegroup'
              - 'eks:DeleteNodegroup'
              - 'eks:UpdateNodegroupConfig'
              - 'eks:CreateNodegroup'
              - 'eks:AssociateEncryptionConfig'
              - 'eks:ListIdentityProviderConfigs'
              - 'eks:AssociateIdentityProviderConfig'
              - 'eks:DescribeIdentityProviderConfig'
              - 'eks:DisassociateIdentityProviderConfig'
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - 'arn:*:eks:*:*:cluster/*'
              - 'arn:*:eks:*:*:nodegroup/*/*/*'
          - Action:
              - 'ec2:AssociateVpcCidrBlock'
              - 'ec2:DisassociateVpcCidrBlock'
              - 'eks:ListAddons'
              - 'eks:CreateAddon'
              - 'eks:DescribeAddonVersions'
              - 'eks:DescribeAddon'
              - 'eks:DeleteAddon'
              - 'eks:UpdateAddon'
              - 'eks:TagResource'
              - 'eks:DescribeFargateProfile'
              - 'eks:CreateFargateProfile'
              - 'eks:DeleteFargateProfile'
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - '*'
          - Action:
              - 'iam:PassRole'
            Condition:
              StringEquals:
                'iam:PassedToService': eks.amazonaws.com
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - '*'
          - Action:
              - 'kms:CreateGrant'
              - 'kms:DescribeKey'
            Condition:
              'ForAnyValue:StringLike':
                'kms:ResourceAliases': alias/cluster-api-provider-aws-*
            Effect: Allow
            Resource:
              - '*'
        Version: 2012-10-17
      Roles: !Ref existingBootstrapperRole
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy'

If your role is not named dkp-bootstrapper-role change the parameter on line 6 of the file.

To create the resources in the cloudformation stack, copy the contents above into a file. Before executing the following command, replace MYFILENAME.yaml and MYSTACKNAME with the intended values for your system:

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aws cloudformation create-stack --template-body=file://MYFILENAME.yaml --stack-name=MYSTACKNAME --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

Next Step:

EKS Cluster IAM Permissions and Roles