I know that in Amazon ECS container agent by setting the variable ECS_ENABLE_CONTAINER_METADATA=true ecs metadata files are created for the containers.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/container-metadata.html
Is there any similar feature for the EKS?. I would like to retrieve instance metadata info from a file inside the container instead of using the IMDSv2 api.
you simply can't, you still need to use IMDSv2 api in your service,if you want to have get instance metadata
if you're looking at the Pod Metadata, ref https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/environment-variable-expose-pod-information/
or you can use pod labels too...
Try adding this as part of the user data:
"echo 'ECS_ENABLE_CONTAINER_METADATA=1' > /etc/ecs/ecs.config"
Found here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/issues/1514