<p>I am learning AWS EKS now and I want to know how to access etcd, kube-apiserver and other control plane components?</p>
<p>For example, when we run command as below in minikube, we can find <code>etcd-minikube</code>,<code>kube-apiserver-minikube</code></p>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>[vagrant@localhost ~]$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces 
NAMESPACE     NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   coredns-6955765f44-lrt6z           1/1     Running   0          176d
kube-system   coredns-6955765f44-xbtc2           1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   kube-addon-manager-minikube        1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   kube-proxy-69mqp                   1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   1          176d
kube-system   storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   2          176d
</code></pre>
<p>And then, we can access them by below command:</p>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>[vagrant@localhost ~]$ kubectl exec -it -n kube-system kube-apiserver-minikube -- /bin/sh
# kube-apiserver
W0715 13:56:17.176154      21 services.go:37] No CIDR for service cluster IPs specified. 
...
</code></pre>
<p><strong>My question: I want to do something like the above example in AWS EKS, but I cannot find <code>kube-apiserver</code></strong></p>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>xiaojie@ubuntu:~/environment/calico_resources$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces 
NAMESPACE     NAME                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   aws-node-flv95            1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   aws-node-kpkv9            1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   aws-node-rxztq            1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   coredns-cdd78ff87-bjnmg   1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   coredns-cdd78ff87-f7rl4   1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   kube-proxy-5wv5m          1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   kube-proxy-6846w          1/1     Running   0          23h
kube-system   kube-proxy-9rbk4          1/1     Running   0          23h
</code></pre>

<p>AWS EKS is a managed kubernetes offering. Kubernetes control plane components such as API Server, ETCD are installed, managed and upgraded by AWS. Hence you can neither see these components nor can <code>exec</code> into these components.</p>
<p>In AWS EKS you can only play with the worker nodes</p>
