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A Kubernetes cronjob to refresh ECR authentication

A Kubernetes cronjob to refresh ECR authentication

Create AWS secret

kubectl create secret generic aws-secret --from-literal=AWS_ACCOUNT= --from-literal=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= --from-literal=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY= --from-literal=AWS_DEFAULT_REGION= --from-literal=AWS_REGION=

Create cronjob

#aws-registry-credential-cron.yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: aws-registry-credential-cron
spec:
  schedule: "* */8 * * *"
  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 2
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 2  
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      backoffLimit: 4
      template:
        spec:
          serviceAccountName: default
          terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
          restartPolicy: Never
          containers:
          - name: kubectl
            imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
            image: xynova/aws-kubectl:latest
            envFrom:
            - secretRef:
                name: aws-secret
            command:
            - "/bin/sh"
            - "-c"
            - |
              DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER=https://${AWS_ACCOUNT}.dkr.ecr.${AWS_REGION}.amazonaws.com
              DOCKER_USER=AWS
              DOCKER_PASSWORD=$(aws ecr get-login --region ${AWS_REGION} --registry-ids ${AWS_ACCOUNT} | cut -d' ' -f6)
              kubectl delete secret aws-registry || true
              kubectl create secret docker-registry aws-registry \
              --docker-server=$DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER \
              --docker-username=$DOCKER_USER \
              --docker-password=$DOCKER_PASSWORD \
              --docker-email=no@email.local
              kubectl patch serviceaccount default -p '{"imagePullSecrets":[{"name":"aws-registry"}]}'

Run

kubectl create -f aws-registry-credential-cron.yaml

# trigger the first run
kubectl create job --from=cronjob/aws-registry-credential-cron aws-registry-credential-cron-manual-001
kubectl logs job/aws-registry-credential-cron-manual-001
secret "aws-registry" deleted
secret "aws-registry" created
serviceaccount "default" not patched
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I've had to update to AWS cli v2 instead of v1 in order to get it to work.

@DavidPerezIngeniero Thank you for sharing.
I created this gist a long time ago when I need to work with an on-premise Kubernetes cluster using AWS ECR. So maybe there are some outdated information.

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