IAM Roles for Service Accounts | Learn about IRSA with demo in 20 mins

This video is about IRSA (IAM roles for Service Accounts). It talks about what is IRSA, benefits of IRSA, how IRSA ties together elements from AWS IAM, OpenID Connect (IdP), K8s Service Accounts and Pods, followed by hands on demo. References: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/iam-roles-for-service-accounts.html https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-fine-grained-iam-roles-service-accounts/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:15 What is IRSA? 01:11 Benefits of IRSA 02:12 EKS OpenId Connect Provider 02:44 IAM Federated identities using OIDS 03:05 Flow for retrieving AWS credentials 03:55 Demo 21:00 Decoding the JWT token 22:53 Outro #aws #irsa #eks #iam #cloud #security