Kubernetes

Question 1

Does EKS by default run the VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin to assign an IP address to a pod by managing networking interfaces and IP addresses on EC2 instances?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

What IS the VPC Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes?

Answer 2

A networking plugin for pod networking in K8s clusters. It is responsible for allocating VPC IP address to K8s nodes and configuring the networking for pods on each node