In Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), because of security guidelines, worker nodes don't have Secure Shell (SSH) key pairs attached to them. This pattern shows how you can use the Kubernetes DaemonSet resource type to install AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) on all worker nodes, instead of installing it manually or replacing the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for the nodes. DaemonSet uses a cron job on the worker node to schedule the installation of SSM Agent. You can also use this pattern to install other packages on worker nodes.
