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Expand Up @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ You can use any of the following Amazon EKS add-ons.
|<<add-ons-pod-id>>
|EC2, EKS Hybrid Nodes

|Enable users to obtain certificates from AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) for Kubernetes
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Enable cert-manager to issue X.509 certificates from AWS Private CA. Requires cert-manager.

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this is what we have in the console.

|<<add-ons-aws-privateca-connector>>
|EC2, EKS Auto Mode
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Missing Fargate and Hybrid here


|===

[#add-ons-vpc-cni]
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For more information, see link:AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Observability-EKS-addon.html[Install the CloudWatch agent,type="documentation"].

[#add-ons-aws-privateca-connector]
== AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes

[abstract]
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Learn about the AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes Amazon EKS add-on.
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The AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes is an add-on for cert-manager that enables users to obtain Certificates from AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA).

* The Amazon EKS add-on name is `aws-privateca-connector-for-kubernetes`.
* The add-on namespace is `aws-privateca-issuer`.

[#add-ons-aws-privateca-connector-iam-permissions]
=== Required IAM permissions

This add-on uses the IAM roles for service accounts capability of Amazon EKS. For more information, see <<iam-roles-for-service-accounts>>.
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we support pod identity too.


[#add-ons-aws-privateca-connector-information]
=== Additional information

For more information, see the https://github.com/cert-manager/aws-privateca-issuer[AWS Private CA Issuer for Kubernetes GitHub repository].

[#add-ons-pod-id]
== EKS Pod Identity Agent

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[#add-ons-pod-id-update-information]
=== Update information

You can only update one minor version at a time. For example, if your current version is `1.28.x-eksbuild.y` and you want to update to `1.30.x-eksbuild.y`, then you must update your current version to `1.29.x-eksbuild.y` and then update it again to `1.30.x-eksbuild.y`. For more information about updating the add-on, see <<vpc-add-on-update>>.
You can only update one minor version at a time. For example, if your current version is `1.28.x-eksbuild.y` and you want to update to `1.30.x-eksbuild.y`, then you must update your current version to `1.29.x-eksbuild.y` and then update it again to `1.30.x-eksbuild.y`. For more information about updating the add-on, see <<vpc-add-on-update>>.