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Support for IAM roles for service accounts in EKS

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#3,143 opened on Sep 29, 2020

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Area/Cloud/AWSEnhancement/UserHelp wantedIceboxReviewed Q2 2021kind/requirement

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Description

Hi, I'm wondering if velero supports IAM roles for service accounts. In the readme the only two options mentioned are an AWS user and kube2iam.

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Research direction
Review the existing AWS plugin implementation and explore adding support for IAM roles for service accounts via OIDC provider integration.
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gokubernetesaws
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infrastructureclouddevops
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3
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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60