[EKS]: allow EKS Pod Identity association to accept a glob for the service account name (my-sa-*)
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**Tell us about your request**
What do you want us to build?
Enhance the EKS `create-pod-identity-association` API to accept a glob for the service account. There are cases where the service account is dynamically provided and will have the form my-sa-. I would like the ability to define the serviceAccount name in this case as "my-sa-*" in the `create-pod-identity-association` call.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
This will enable EKS pod identity to be used in cases where the service account name is being managed by another controller on the cluster.
**Are you currently working around this issue?**
We can continue to use IRSA with a trust policy that includes a condition and StringLike operator and statement like `"${ISSUER_HOSTPATH}:sub": "system:serviceaccount:default:my-sa-*"`
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the EKS create-pod-identity-association API described in the request and compare it with the stated IRSA trust-policy workaround. Done means the association accepts a glob such as "my-sa-*" for dynamically named service accounts.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, kubernetes
- Domain
- authorization, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100