Label Nodes is a tool designed to help users label Kubernetes nodes that are managed by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). EKS does not allow users to set the kubernetes.io labels for managed node groups. Instead, users can set some other label and use the label-nodes project to set the appropriate *.kubernetes.io/ label.

Issue references:

• eksctl-io/eksctl#4007
• aws/containers-roadmap#1451
• kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws#110

The Label Nodes tool works by using the Kubernetes API to get a list of nodes in the cluster. The tool then updates the selected node's labels to include the node-role.kubernetes.io/ label with the specified category and value using predefined source label

To install Label Nodes, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/enver/label-nodes.git

2. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your Kubernetes configuration file (if you haven't already):

export KUBECONFIG=<path-to-your-kubeconfig-file>

To customize the installation set

• INTERVAL_SECONDS - Interval at which the application runs and scans for new nodes (default 60)
• SOURCE_LABEL_PREFIX - Source label prefix to be used for reading role (or any other information) (default node-role.kubernetes/)
• DESTINATION_LABEL_PREFIX - Destination label prefix (default node-role.kubernetes.io/)

The docker image can be found here

There is a helm chart to help you deploy to the Kubernetes cluster.

To use Label Nodes, follow these steps:

Run the label-nodes.py script:

python label-nodes.py

Create managed EKS node group and set role label node-role.kubernetes/foo=true. Once label-nodes is deployed it will set node-role.kubernetes.io/foo=true to all running nodes where node-role.kubernetes/foo=true exists. Then kubectl get nodes will show node role

# kubectl get nodes                               ↓
NAME                                   STATUS   ROLES             AGE     VERSION
ip-1-2-3-4.<region>.compute.internal   Ready    foo                1m     v1.2.3
....

Verify that the label has been applied to the node by running the kubectl describe node command.

If you would like to contribute to Label Nodes, please fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes. Contributions are always welcome!

Label Nodes is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.