This video is about IRSA (IAM roles for Service Accounts). It talks about what is IRSA, benefits of IRSA, how IRSA ties together elements from AWS IAM, OpenID Connect (IdP), K8s Service Accounts and Pods, followed by hands on demo.
References:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-for-service-accounts.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-fine-grained-iam-roles-service-accounts/
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 What is IRSA?
01:11 Benefits of IRSA
02:12 EKS OpenId Connect Provider
02:44 IAM Federated identities using OIDS
03:05 Flow for retrieving AWS credentials
03:55 Demo
21:00 Decoding the JWT token
22:53 Outro
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