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Do EKS Secrets are encrypted by default?

Time:10-25

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CodePudding user response:

short answer, yes it encrypted at rest

The answer is yes, the data stored by etcd is encrypted at rest.

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AWS EKS is a managed Kubernetes offering. Kubernetes control plane components such as API Server, and ETCD are installed, managed, and upgraded by AWS. Hence you can neither see these components nor can exec into these components.

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The below article also shows how to get cloud trail events when Kubernetes secrets are decrypted using KMS.

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Ensure AWS EKS cluster has secrets encryption enabled

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