Kops: Add Policies for Migrated Apps


When migrating some old applications to a Kubernetes(k8s) cluster provisioned by kops, a lot of things might break and one of them is the missing policy for the node.

By default, nodes of a k8s cluster have the following permissions:

ec2:Describe*
 ecr:GetAuthorizationToken
 ecr:BatchCheckLayerAvailability
 ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer
 ecr:GetRepositoryPolicy
 ecr:DescribeRepositories
 ecr:ListImages
 ecr:BatchGetImage
 route53:ListHostedZones
 route53:GetChange
 // The following permissions are scoped to AWS Route53 HostedZone used to bootstrap the cluster
 // arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/$hosted_zone_id
 route53:ChangeResourceRecordSets, ListResourceRecordSets, GetHostedZone

Additional policies can be added to the nodes’ role by

kops edit cluster ${CLUSTER_NAME}

Then adding something like:

spec:
  additionalPolicies:
    node: |
      [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": ["dynamodb:*"],
          "Resource": ["*"]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": ["es:*"],
          "Resource": ["*"]
        }
      ]

Then it will be effective after:

kops update cluster ${CLUSTER_NAME} --yes

The new policy can be reviewed in AWS IAM console.

Most lines were copied from here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/iam_roles.md

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