This pattern describes how to use AWS Cloud9 and AWS CloudFormation to create an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that can be operated without enabling programmatic access for users in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that helps you write, run, and debug your code by using a browser. AWS Cloud9 is used as a control center that provisions an Amazon EKS cluster by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance profiles and AWS CloudFormation templates.
You can use this pattern if you don’t want to create AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and want to use IAM roles instead. Role-based access control (RBAC) regulates access to resources based on the roles of individual users. This pattern demonstrates how to update RBAC within an Amazon EKS cluster to allow access to a specific IAM role.
The pattern’s setup also helps your DevOps team use AWS Cloud9 features to maintain and develop infrastructure as code (IaC) resources for creating Amazon EKS infrastructure.
