Error while launching the efs csi driver pod in EKS - amazon-web-services

Question

I am using aws EKS to deploy my application. There is a public subnet with a nodegroup in it. Then there is one private subnet with a node group as well. Everything was fine until I started using EFS. The pods for the efs csi driver would not launch on the private subnet node. The pod would give the following description:
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal Scheduled 4m44s default-scheduler Successfully assigned kube-system/efs-csi-node-t79j6 to ip-192-168-93-186.ap-south-1.compute.internal
Normal Pulling 4m44s kubelet Pulling image "602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/aws-efs-csi-driver:v1.0.0"
Warning Failed 2m28s kubelet Failed to pull image "602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/aws-efs-csi-driver:v1.0.0":
rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Error response from daemon: Get https://602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v2/: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
Warning Failed 2m28s kubelet Error: ErrImagePull
Normal Pulling 2m28s kubelet Pulling image "602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/csi-node-driver-registrar:v1.3.0"
Warning Failed 13s kubelet Failed to pull image
"602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/csi-node-driver-registrar:v1.3.0": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Error response from daemon:
Get https://602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/v2/: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
Warning Failed 13s kubelet Error: ErrImagePull
Normal Pulling 13s kubelet Pulling image
"602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/eks/livenessprobe:v2.0.0"
While another efs CSI driver pod launched successfully over the public subnet node. I thought it is not able to pull the image because of no internet connectivity on the private node but even after giving the internet gateway, i see the same issue. Please suggest some solution for this.
This was the command used for launching the driver pod :
kubectl apply -k
"github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-efs-csi-driver/deploy/kubernetes/overlays/stable/ecr/?ref=release-1.0"

Answer 1

All you need to do is to update the region , the repo is having the default region us-west-2, so if you are accessing the image from a different region you will be getting the imagepullbackoff error.
kubectl edit daemonsets/efs-csi-node -n kube-system
And then update it with your eks region for all the 3 images specified in the efs-csi daemonsets .