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[CORE-11642] Add note about enabled ANNOTATE_POD_IP setting to EKS guide. #2174

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Add note about enabled ANNOTATE_POD_IP setting to EKS guide.
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Move EKS cluster requirements under "create an Amazon EKS cluster"
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Expand Up @@ -35,16 +35,32 @@ When using the Amazon VPC CNI plugin, $[prodname] does not support enforcement o

:::

***Prerequisites***

* You [disabled network policy for the AWS VPC CNI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/network-policy-disable.html).

1. First, create an Amazon EKS cluster.

```bash
eksctl create cluster --name <my-calico-cluster>
```

Do **not** enable [network policy for the AWS VPC CNI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/network-policy-disable.html); it conflicts with $[prodname].

1. Configure AWS VPC CNI to [annotate Pods with their IPs](https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s?tab=readme-ov-file#annotate_pod_ip-v193).
Note the requirement to grant the "patch" permission to the `aws-node` daemon set to avoid permission errors.
This setting ensures that pod IPs propagate quickly from AWS VPC CNI to $[prodname].

```bash
cat << EOF > append.yaml
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- pods
verbs:
- patch
EOF
kubectl apply -f <(cat <(kubectl get clusterrole aws-node -o yaml) append.yaml)
kubectl set env -n kube-system daemonset/aws-node ANNOTATE_POD_IP=true
```

1. Install the Tigera Operator and custom resource definitions.

```bash
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