#eks
Changelog
- 2026-05-12
Kubernetes
Mitigation for the DirtyFrag kernel vulnerabilities on EKS nodes
- 2026-05-05
New Features
Faster Terragrunt plans, fewer breaking upgrades
- 2026-04-22
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons and resilience improvements
- 2026-03-31
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.35
- 2026-03-23
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2026-03-04
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.34
- 2026-02-18
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2026-01-27
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-12-08
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-11-13
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.33 + node auto repair feature
- 2025-09-25
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-08-06
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-07-04
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-06-25
Maintenance
Loki label optimisations to improve performance, rollout finished
- 2025-06-25
New Features
Introducing the "Platform Info" file
- 2025-06-16
Maintenance
Fixed subnet & route association bug
- 2025-06-10
Maintenance
Grafana CVE-2025-4123 mitigation
- 2025-05-20
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-05-08
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Loki label optimisations to improve performance
- 2025-04-17
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-03-25
Maintenance
All clusters patched against IngressNightmare (CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-1974, CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514)
- 2025-03-12
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-02-05
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.32
- 2025-01-23
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2025-01-07
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.31
- 2024-12-09
Announcements
Migrated to Tailscale for internal remote access to our managed environments
- 2024-12-06
Maintenance
Loki optimisations to mitigate recurring performance issues
- 2024-12-03
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-09-19
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-08-12
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-07-11
Maintenance
[ACTION REQUIRED] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-06-19
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.30
- 2024-06-13
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons - hotfixes
- 2024-05-23
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-04-11
Maintenance
[Action required] Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-04-03
Maintenance
Overhauled EKS access control
- 2024-03-28
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.29
- 2024-02-29
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-02-08
New Features
Introducing Thanos as an experimental feature to the k8s reference solution
- 2024-01-22
Maintenance
Use direct AWS EKS AMI instead of SkS custom-build
- 2024-01-19
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2024-01-11
Maintenance
Karpenter now deployed by default and migrated system pool
- 2023-12-05
Maintenance
Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.28
- 2023-11-07
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-10-05
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-09-29
Maintenance
Support for GPU node pools on AWS (EKS)
- 2023-09-29
Maintenance
Removed Calico as NetworkPolicies engine - this functionality has merged with the AWS VPC CNI
- 2023-09-20
Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.27
- 2023-09-11
Maintenance
New experimental component Karpenter for cost-effective node scaling
- 2023-07-19
Maintenance
Disable kubernetes-dashboard by default
- 2023-07-14
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-07-07
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-07-05
Maintenance
Dedicated system node pool + reduced system component footprint
- 2023-06-22
Maintenance
Upgrading K8s clusters to v1.26
- 2023-05-30
Maintenance
Post-mortem - A word on Pods stuck with ContainerCreating status problems
- 2023-05-25
Maintenance
Upgraded fluent-bit and moving to built-in loki output
- 2023-05-11
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons for monitoring & logging
- 2023-05-10
Maintenance
[Action required] Update external-dns behavior for private Route53 zones
- 2023-05-04
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-03-31
Maintenance
Defaulting to capacity-optimized for Spot nodepools
- 2023-03-30
Maintenance
[Action required] Upgrades starting for K8s clusters to 1.25
- 2023-03-27
Maintenance
Upgraded EKS cluster add-ons
- 2023-02-28
Maintenance
Post Mortem - Loki log loss
- 2023-02-20
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2023-02-13
Maintenance
Improving Loki performance & scalability
- 2023-02-03
Maintenance
Node Termination Handler Slack notifications disabled by default (AWS EKS)
- 2023-01-27
Maintenance
Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.24
- 2022-12-21
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-12-13
Maintenance
New feature: Use External-DNS for managing custom DNS records
- 2022-11-21
Maintenance
New feature: Kubernetes descheduler
- 2022-11-18
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-11-17
Maintenance
Upgraded K8s clusters to 1.23
- 2022-11-10
Maintenance
Upgraded ingress-nginx, fixing CVE-2022-32149, CVE-2022-27664 and CVE-2022-1996
- 2022-11-09
Maintenance
Upgraded monitoring add-ons, fixing Grafana CVE-2022-32149
- 2022-11-04
Maintenance
AWS EKS AMI recalled
- 2022-10-06
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-08-10
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-07-25
Maintenance
Upgraded AKS and EKS clusters to 1.22
- 2022-07-12
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-06-23
Maintenance
Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS
- 2022-06-14
Maintenance
Major Nginx Ingress Controller upgrade
- 2022-05-12
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-05-05
Maintenance
[Action required] Final call - Deprecated API removal, upgrade your Ingresses etc.
- 2022-04-26
Maintenance
Improved node termination handling (AWS EKS)
- 2022-04-08
Maintenance
Internal refactor of monitoring addons
- 2022-04-04
Maintenance
Upgrade Nginx Ingress, fixing CVEs
- 2022-04-01
Maintenance
Upgrade to Grafana v8 - take 2
- 2022-03-17
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2022-03-01
Maintenance
EKS component upgrades
- 2022-03-01
Maintenance
Allow for more fine-tuning of cluster-autoscaler params
- 2022-02-02
Maintenance
Calico NetworkPolicy controller upgraded on EKS
- 2022-01-28
Maintenance
VPA enabled by for metrics-server
- 2022-01-07
Maintenance
VPA enabled for Vault
- 2021-12-16
Maintenance
Add support for mixed node pools in EKS
- 2021-12-10
Maintenance
Add support for AWS Secrets Manager in EKS
- 2021-12-06
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2021-10-11
Maintenance
A note on Let's Encrypt chain issues due to DST Root CA X3 expiry
- 2021-09-27
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster add-ons
- 2021-09-16
Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.21. Actions to take!
- 2021-09-09
Maintenance
VPA enabled by default
- 2021-09-07
Maintenance
Downgraded Grafana to v7.5
- 2021-08-10
Maintenance
Upgraded cluster components & increased Pod density. Actions to take!
- 2021-06-04
Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.20
- 2021-05-18
Maintenance
Upgraded several cluster components
- 2021-05-10
Maintenance
Merging AKS and EKS reference solution codebases and improving automation
- 2021-03-30
Maintenance
Upgrade AKS and EKS clusters to 1.19
- 2021-03-04
Maintenance
You can now use local NVMe Instance Storage with your Pods on EKS
- 2021-02-23
Maintenance
Option to run the K8s API private
- 2021-01-21
Maintenance
Velero S3 backups replication
- 2020-12-14
Maintenance
New log shipper added - Fluent Bit
- 2020-12-14
Maintenance
Configurable default certificate and default backend on nginx-ingress
- 2020-12-08
Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.18
- 2020-07-22
Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.17
- 2020-06-17
Maintenance
Update of ingress-nginx
- 2020-06-16
Maintenance
Update of Velero
- 2020-06-16
Maintenance
Migrating from kube2iam to IAM roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
- 2020-06-05
Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.16
- 2020-06-05
Maintenance
Cert-manger updated to 0.15.1
- 2020-05-20
Maintenance
Resizable persistent volumes
- 2020-05-19
Maintenance
Automated OpenVPN deployments
- 2020-05-13
Maintenance
Upgrades to monitoring & logging components
- 2020-05-13
Maintenance
Fix Services without Endpoints timeout instead of reject
- 2020-04-27
Maintenance
Update of cluster components
- 2020-04-16
Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.15
- 2020-03-31
Maintenance
Upgrades to monitoring components
- 2020-03-27
Maintenance
Cluster addons upgrades
- 2020-03-26
Maintenance
Use NetworkPolicies
- 2020-03-26
Maintenance
Upgrade of core EKS components
- 2020-02-11
Maintenance
Bugfix - Raise fs.inotify limits
- 2019-12-05
Maintenance
Several other K8s Reference Solution improvemens
- 2019-12-05
Maintenance
Kubernetes monitoring upgrades
- 2019-12-05
Maintenance
Heavily reduced resource reservations for our default cluster Add-ons
- 2019-12-05
Maintenance
Better support for different AWS regions and AZs for our Kubernetes reference solution
- 2019-09-30
Maintenance
Improved Kubernetes clusters automation
- 2019-09-25
Maintenance
Upgrade EKS to 1.14
- 2019-09-24
Maintenance
Upgrade Calico to 3.8.2
- 2019-09-02
Maintenance
Upgrade to EKS 1.13
- 2019-08-06
Maintenance
Kubernetes add-on upgrades
- 2019-08-01
Maintenance
We're moving to EKS