How to deploy an operator on exiting EKS using CloudFormation?

Question

I have an EKS cluster and I would like to deploy an Operator and Application using CloudFormation. Installing an Operator involves getting yamls from public registry and deploying them. 
If the EKS has a Bastion host then using SSM I can connect to Bastion host, use curl to download the yaml files and kubectl to deploy them. But I would like to be able to deploy when Bastion host does not exist. What options do I have?

Any pointers or sample is appreciated.

Thanks

Answer

Hello,

There is a blog post that aims to solve this very issue. Please review this [post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/infrastructure-and-automation/using-aws-cloudformation-to-deploy-software-into-amazon-eks-clusters/) and see if it works for your use-case.

Note: The above blog post uses an open-source custom resource [AWSQS::Kubernetes::Helm](https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-helm-resource-provider). There is an open feature request [254](https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/254) to provide an official cloudformation resource for the same.

Thanks!

How to deploy an operator on exiting EKS using CloudFormation?

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