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AWS Authentication

Understand how to set up and manage AWS authentication using access keys stored in environment variables. This lesson guides you through configuring secure credentials for seamless use with AWS CLI and Terraform when managing EKS clusters.

AWS account

The _access key ID_ and the _secret access key_ are the two main authenticators required for this chapter. We’re assuming that we already have these, and they’ll be stored in environment variables to construct a file that we’ll be able to source whenever we need those keys.

Note: If you don’t have ...