eksctl 0.206.0

Release v0.206.0

🚀 Features

• Allow specification of IAM permission boundary for Auto Mode's Node Role (#8307)

🎯 Improvements

• Default to newest k8s 1.32 version (#8300)
• Support for EKS internal environments (#8294)
• Update goformation from latest schema / Remove unused generated code (#8289)
• Reduce blast radius of test that disables api server public access failing (#8288)
• Fix failure when VPC CNI is configured to use both iam.withOIDC and useDefaultPodIdentityAssociations (#8268)
• Update zz_generated.deepcopy.go, also add new make target for the same (#8267)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skip instance type support validation for custom AMI ID (#8303)
• Allow core/default networking addons on auto-mode clusters with mixed node types (#8293)
• Standardize on k8s 1.32.2 for go.mod (#8285)

🧰 Maintenance

• Add support for i8g.48xlarge ec2 instance type (#8301)
• Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.17.1 (#8296)
• Update ec2-info (#8297)
• Update ec2-info (#8290)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @amdonov, and @ndbaker1.

eksctl 0.206.0-rc.0

Release v0.206.0

🚀 Features

• Allow specification of IAM permission boundary for Auto Mode's Node Role (#8307)

🎯 Improvements

• Default to newest k8s 1.32 version (#8300)
• Support for EKS internal environments (#8294)
• Update goformation from latest schema / Remove unused generated code (#8289)
• Reduce blast radius of test that disables api server public access failing (#8288)
• Fix failure when VPC CNI is configured to use both iam.withOIDC and useDefaultPodIdentityAssociations (#8268)
• Update zz_generated.deepcopy.go, also add new make target for the same (#8267)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skip instance type support validation for custom AMI ID (#8303)
• Allow core/default networking addons on auto-mode clusters with mixed node types (#8293)
• Standardize on k8s 1.32.2 for go.mod (#8285)

🧰 Maintenance

• Add support for i8g.48xlarge ec2 instance type (#8301)
• Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.17.1 (#8296)
• Update ec2-info (#8297)
• Update ec2-info (#8290)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @amdonov, and @ndbaker1.

eksctl 0.205.0

Release v0.205.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for creating access entries of type EC2 for EKS Auto Mode (#8228)
• Support for setting MarketType/InstanceMarketOptions for use with capacity-block (#8207)

🎯 Improvements

• Update eksctl api schema for neuron devices (#8255)
• Fix go.sum; check go.mod and go.sum on CI (#8254)
• Switch default for ExecConfig api version from v1alpha1->v1beta1 (#8252)
• Allow separate explicit selection of Neuron Devices (separate from GPUs) in api (#8243)
• Add support for allow/deny regexp(s) in instanceSelector (#8247)
• Re-add support for env var keys from AWS SDK (#8231)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Allow adding remote network config to private clusters (#8261)
• Re-allow use of the cnn1-az4 availability zone (#8240)
• Add missing coredns-1.32 json file (#8233)
• Print the computed upgrade version correctly (#8232)
• Remove support for p2 instances which require NVIDIA driver <= 470 (#8226)
• Fix issue installing the nvidia device plugin unconditionally on al2023 (#8225)
• Do not create a placement group when using a reservation (#8220)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update aws-node to v1.19.3 (#8258)

📝 Documentation

• Update Karpenter usage documentation to reflect latest supported version(s) (#8250)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey, @alexandear, @bryantbiggs, @cenkalti, @dims, @escardoso and @vsoch.

eksctl 0.205.0-rc.0

Release v0.205.0

🚀 Features

• Add support for creating access entries of type EC2 for EKS Auto Mode (#8228)
• Support for setting MarketType/InstanceMarketOptions for use with capacity-block (#8207)

🎯 Improvements

• Update eksctl api schema for neuron devices (#8255)
• Fix go.sum; check go.mod and go.sum on CI (#8254)
• Switch default for ExecConfig api version from v1alpha1->v1beta1 (#8252)
• Allow separate explicit selection of Neuron Devices (separate from GPUs) in api (#8243)
• Add support for allow/deny regexp(s) in instanceSelector (#8247)
• Re-add support for env var keys from AWS SDK (#8231)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Allow adding remote network config to private clusters (#8261)
• Re-allow use of the cnn1-az4 availability zone (#8240)
• Add missing coredns-1.32 json file (#8233)
• Print the computed upgrade version correctly (#8232)
• Remove support for p2 instances which require NVIDIA driver <= 470 (#8226)
• Fix issue installing the nvidia device plugin unconditionally on al2023 (#8225)
• Do not create a placement group when using a reservation (#8220)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update aws-node to v1.19.3 (#8258)

📝 Documentation

• Update Karpenter usage documentation to reflect latest supported version(s) (#8250)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @NicholasBlaskey, @alexandear, @bryantbiggs, @cenkalti, @dims, @escardoso and @vsoch.

eksctl 0.204.0

Release v0.204.0

🚀 Features

• Enable NVIDIA Plugin automatically for AL2023 GPU AMIs (#8199)
• Added EBS IO2 volumeType support to Managed NodeGroup (#7989)
• Enable Bottlerocket on Neuron Instance types (Inferentia and Trainium) (#8173)

🎯 Improvements

• pre-Generate EC2 instance type details out of band (#8206)
• New EFA plugin images need a new volume for EFA plugin to mount - /dev/infiniband (#8201)
• Add addon name to some logging lines (#8200)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update building with golang 1.24 (#8210)
• Update aws-node to v1.19.2 (#8160)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @BhowmickSumit, @Juneezee, @alexandear, @dims and @vigh-m.

eksctl 0.204.0-rc.0

Release v0.204.0

🚀 Features

• Enable NVIDIA Plugin automatically for AL2023 GPU AMIs (#8199)
• Added EBS IO2 volumeType support to Managed NodeGroup (#7989)
• Enable Bottlerocket on Neuron Instance types (Inferentia and Trainium) (#8173)

🎯 Improvements

• pre-Generate EC2 instance type details out of band (#8206)
• New EFA plugin images need a new volume for EFA plugin to mount - /dev/infiniband (#8201)
• Add addon name to some logging lines (#8200)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update building with golang 1.24 (#8210)
• Update aws-node to v1.19.2 (#8160)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @BhowmickSumit, @Juneezee, @alexandear, @dims and @vigh-m.

eksctl 0.203.0

Release v0.203.0

🎯 Improvements

• [Hybrid Nodes] Remove strict requirement of providing a VGW or TGW during cluster creation (#8168)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolve clusterDNS for IPv6 MNG AL2023 with custom AMI (#8170)
• [Hybrid Nodes] Make remoteNetworkConfig.IAM.Provider field case insensitive (#8169)

eksctl 0.203.0-rc.0

Release v0.203.0

🎯 Improvements

• [Hybrid Nodes] Remove strict requirement of providing a VGW or TGW during cluster creation (#8168)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Resolve clusterDNS for IPv6 MNG AL2023 with custom AMI (#8170)
• [Hybrid Nodes] Make remoteNetworkConfig.IAM.Provider field case insensitive (#8169)

eksctl 0.202.0

Release v0.202.0

🚀 Features

• Support for us-isof and eu-isoe regions (#8151)
• Enable default addon creation for auto mode clusters (#8140)

🎯 Improvements

• Use DescribeClusterVersions API instead of hardcoding EKS version data (#8144)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Wait for vpccni to become active before updating it to use IRSA (#8152)
• Update import path of local goformation fork, fixing go mod verify (#8148)
• Disable metrics-server default addon creation for unsupported regions (#8146)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @jdwtf

eksctl 0.202.0-rc.0

Release v0.202.0

🚀 Features

• Support for us-isof and eu-isoe regions (#8151)
• Enable default addon creation for auto mode clusters (#8140)

🎯 Improvements

• Use DescribeClusterVersions API instead of hardcoding EKS version data (#8144)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Wait for vpccni to become active before updating it to use IRSA (#8152)
• Update import path of local goformation fork, fixing go mod verify (#8148)
• Disable metrics-server default addon creation for unsupported regions (#8146)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @jdwtf