2026-02-18
Upgraded cluster add-ons
#add-on #kubernetes #update #upgrade #component #eks
The following updates have been rolled out to all non-production clusters, and will be deployed to production in the coming week. As usual there are also improvements across various other add-ons, ensuring enhanced performance and security:
- alloy v1.13.1
- amazon-eks-ami v20260209
- aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.55.0-eksbuild.2
- aws-load-balancer-controller v3.0.0
- Gateway API support is now Generally Available (GA) for managing ALBs and NLBs through the Kubernetes Gateway API
- ALB URL rewrite support using regex patterns for transforming request URLs
- QUIC protocol support for Gateway API and Service API
- JWT validation support in Gateway API
- aws-mountpoint-s3-csi-driver v2.3.0-eksbuild.1
- cert-manager v1.19.3
- coredns v1.13.2-eksbuild.1
- karpenter v1.9.0
- Improved memory efficiency when using Node Overlay with copy-on-write
- Fix for volume requirements interfering with TopologySpreadConstraint scheduling calculations
- keda v2.19.0
- New Kubernetes Resource Scaler for scaling based on arbitrary Kubernetes resource metrics
- File-based authentication support for ClusterTriggerAuthentication
- kube-prometheus-stack v82.0.2
- grafana-loki v6.53.0
- metrics-server v0.8.1-eksbuild.1
- nvidia-device-plugin v0.18.2
- oauth2-proxy v7.14.2 (chart v10.1.4)
- prometheus-blackbox-exporter v0.28.0 (chart v11.8.0)
- secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws v2.2.1
- grafana-tempo v2.10.0
- New TraceQL features including
minInt/maxIntconstants,attribute = nilqueries for identifying missing instrumentation, and a newspan:childCountintrinsic
- New TraceQL features including
- velero v11.3.2
- vertical-pod-autoscaler v1.6.0