Permissions Required to Use CloudPilot AI

The installation process consists of two phases. In the first phase, only an agent is installed, which collects cluster resource-related data using read-only permissions.

In the second phase, CloudPilot AI will request the following privileges:

{
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
                "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
                "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
                "autoscaling:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
                "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
                "ec2:GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements",
                "eks:DescribeNodegroup"
            ],
            "Resource": ["*"]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
                "autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup",
                "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup"
            ],
            "Resource": ["*"]
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "ssm:GetParameter",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:RunInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings",
                "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
                "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
                "ec2:CreateFleet",
                "ec2:DescribeSpotPriceHistory",
                "pricing:GetProducts",
                "savingsplans:DescribeSavingsPlans",
                "ec2:DescribeRegions"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Sid": "CloudPilot"
        },
        {
            "Action": "ec2:TerminateInstances",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "ec2:ResourceTag/karpenter.sh/nodepool": "*"
                }
            },
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Sid": "ConditionalEC2Termination"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:PassRole",
            "Resource": "arn:${AWS_PARTITION}:iam::${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}:role/CloudPilotNodeRole-${CLUSTER_NAME}",
            "Sid": "PassNodeIAMRole"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "eks:DescribeCluster",
            "Resource": "arn:${AWS_PARTITION}:eks:${AWS_REGION}:${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}:cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}",
            "Sid": "EKSClusterEndpointLookup"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowScopedInstanceProfileCreationActions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Action": [
            "iam:CreateInstanceProfile"
            ],
            "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
                "aws:RequestTag/kubernetes.io/cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}": "owned",
                "aws:RequestTag/topology.kubernetes.io/region": "${AWS_REGION}"
            },
            "StringLike": {
                "aws:RequestTag/karpenter.k8s.aws/ec2nodeclass": "*"
            }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowScopedInstanceProfileTagActions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Action": [
            "iam:TagInstanceProfile"
            ],
            "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
                "aws:ResourceTag/kubernetes.io/cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}": "owned",
                "aws:ResourceTag/topology.kubernetes.io/region": "${AWS_REGION}",
                "aws:RequestTag/kubernetes.io/cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}": "owned",
                "aws:RequestTag/topology.kubernetes.io/region": "${AWS_REGION}"
            },
            "StringLike": {
                "aws:ResourceTag/karpenter.k8s.aws/ec2nodeclass": "*",
                "aws:RequestTag/karpenter.k8s.aws/ec2nodeclass": "*"
            }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowScopedInstanceProfileActions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Action": [
            "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile",
            "iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile",
            "iam:DeleteInstanceProfile"
            ],
            "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
                "aws:ResourceTag/kubernetes.io/cluster/${CLUSTER_NAME}": "owned",
                "aws:ResourceTag/topology.kubernetes.io/region": "${AWS_REGION}"
            },
            "StringLike": {
                "aws:ResourceTag/karpenter.k8s.aws/ec2nodeclass": "*"
            }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowInstanceProfileReadActions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Action": "iam:GetInstanceProfile"
        }
    ],
    "Version": "2012-10-17"
}

CloudPilot AI requires almost the same privileges as the open-source Karpenter, with the addition of permissions related to AutoScalingGroup, which are used to optimize existing nodes.

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