EKS Pod Identity vs IRSA: A Practical Migration Guide and the Gotchas Nobody Mentions
If you're running workloads on EKS, your IAM strategy was probably built around IRSA. At re:Invent 2023, AWS introduced EKS Pod Identity as a simpler alternative to it. This post walks through the practical migration path, and, more importantly, five gotchas I hit that aren't covered in the official docs. Quick context (skip if you already know this) IRSA relies on OIDC federation. You create a…
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