Managed Add-Ons

Amazon EKS add-ons provide supporting operational capabilities to Kubernetes applications. Installing add-ons to an EKS cluster can be done in the Console or using RCTL.

There are four EKS add-ons available in the Console. Some EKS add-ons are K8s version specific. For information about supported versions, see Amazon EKS Add-Ons.

• Amazon EBS CSI Driver - Amazon EBS CSI Driver documentation
• Amazon VPC CNI - Recommended K8s versions
• CoreDNS - Not K8s version specific
• Kube-Proxy - K8s Compatibility

Note

With AWS EKS version 1.24 and newer, the Amazon EBS CSI Driver is automatically included with the EKS cluster.

The Amazon EBS CSI Driver requires IAM permissions.

Install Add-Ons

Console

1. In the Console, select the EKS cluster to install add-ons to.
2. On the Configuration tab, for EKS Managed Addons, click Add.
3. For Name, select the add-on from the drop-down list. Example: Amazon VPC CNI.
4. For Version, select the appropriate version from the drop-down list. Example: v1.25.11-eksbuild.1.

RCTL

In the EKS cluster specification file, add the 'addons` section and include the appropriate add-ons. The following is an example.

addons:
- name: aws-ebs-csi-driver
  serviceAccountRoleARN: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/demo-ebs-csi
  version: v1.16.0-eksbuild.1
- name: vpc-cni
  version: v1.12.6-eksbuild.1
- name: kube-proxy
  version: v1.23.16-eksbuild.2

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