2025-12-08
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security:
- amazon-eks-ami v20251120
- Root block volume has been migrated from gp2 to gp3 storage type
- aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.53.0-eksbuild.1
- aws-efs-csi-driver v2.1.15
- aws-load-balancer-controller v2.16.0
- Support for ALB URL Rewrite, enabling request URL transformation using regex patterns (e.g., rewrite /api/v1/users to /users)
- aws-vpc-cni v1.20.5-eksbuild.1
- cert-manager v1.19.1
- eks-node-monitoring-agent v1.4.2-eksbuild.1
- fluent-bit v4.1.0)
- Flux v2.7.5
- General Availability of Image Automation APIs (ImagePolicy, ImageRepository, ImageUpdateAutomation)
- New ExternalArtifact and ArtifactGenerator APIs for advanced source composition and decomposition patterns (not enabled by default)
- Watch for changes in ConfigMaps and Secrets references with automatic reconciliation
- Support for cloud provider Workload Identity authentication at the object level
- OpenTelemetry tracing support for Kustomization and HelmRelease reconciliation
- gha-runner-scale-set-controller v0.13.0
- ingress-nginx v1.14.0
- karpenter v1.8.2
- Support for Static Capacity mode (experimental), allowing NodePools to maintain a fixed number of nodes regardless of pod demand using the
replicasfield
- Support for Static Capacity mode (experimental), allowing NodePools to maintain a fixed number of nodes regardless of pod demand using the
- keda v2.18.1
- kube-prometheus-stack v79.10.0
- kube-proxy v1.33.5-eksbuild.2
- loki v3.5.7
- metrics-server v0.8.0-eksbuild.5
- nvidia-device-plugin v0.18.0
- oauth2-proxy v7.13.0
- secrets-store-csi-driver v1.5.4
- secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws v2.1.1
- velero v1.17.1
- vertical-pod-autoscaler v1.5.1
- Enabled in-place vertical scaling by default, allowing resource adjustments without pod restarts