--- title: Are You Still Using IRSA for EKS Workloads? | daily.dev description: A discussion post asks platform and DevOps teams whether they still rely on IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) for granting AWS access to EKS workloads, or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/are-you-still-using-irsa-for-eks-workloads--jjmib7dt4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Are You Still Using IRSA for EKS Workloads? | daily.dev og:description: A discussion post asks platform and DevOps teams whether they still rely on IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) for granting AWS access to EKS workloads, or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/are-you-still-using-irsa-for-eks-workloads--jjmib7dt4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JJmib7dt4.png og:image:alt: Are You Still Using IRSA for EKS Workloads? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Are You Still Using IRSA for EKS Workloads? **[DevOps & Platform Engineering Hub](https://daily.dev/sources/sanjay)** · [@divyansh30](https://daily.dev/divyansh30) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A discussion post asks platform and DevOps teams whether they still rely on IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) for granting AWS access to EKS workloads, or have moved to the newer EKS Pod Identity feature. It links to an external comparison of the two approaches and their operational differences, then invites readers to share their own migration decisions and preferences for new EKS environments. ## Content Giving applications access to AWS resources is one of those things that looks simple until you start thinking about IAM roles, permissions, service accounts, and how much configuration your platform team needs to maintain. IRSA has been the common approach for a long time. EKS Pod Identity gives teams another option. The bigger question is what you want your platform team to manage long term. I'm curious how other DevOps and platform teams are handling this: - Are you still using IRSA in production? - Have you moved to EKS Pod Identity? - If you migrated, what made you switch? - For a new EKS environment, which approach would you choose? I came across a practical comparison of IRSA and EKS Pod Identity that looks at how both approaches work and the operational differences between them. [https://www.kubeblogs.com/eks-irsa-vs-eks-pod-identity-two-ways-to-grant-application-access-to-aws-resources/](https://www.kubeblogs.com/eks-irsa-vs-eks-pod-identity-two-ways-to-grant-application-access-to-aws-resources/) **If you manage EKS, which approach are you using today?** #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #AWS #EKS #CloudSecurity #Kubernetes ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons in AWS GovCloud \(US\) Regions](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-eks-simplifies-providing-iam-permissions-to-eks-add-ons-in-aws-govcloud-us-regions-cos39kujm) · AWS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Load data from S3 without static credentials](https://daily.dev/posts/load-data-from-s3-without-static-credentials-ye4if8hi2) · SingleStore · 20 upvotes · 1 comments - [Amazon ECS vs Amazon EKS: It’s Not About Kubernetes, It’s About Business Needs](https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-ecs-vs-amazon-eks-it-s-not-about-kubernetes-it-s-about-business-needs-cgjwicbv8) · Medium · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#platform-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/platform-engineering), [#aws-iam](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-iam) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/are-you-still-using-irsa-for-eks-workloads--jjmib7dt4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/are-you-still-using-irsa-for-eks-workloads--jjmib7dt4","headline":"Are You Still Using IRSA for EKS Workloads?","text":"A discussion post asks platform and DevOps teams whether they still rely on IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) for granting AWS access to EKS workloads, or have moved to the newer EKS Pod Identity feature. 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