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EKS release cycle is related to Kubernetes release cycle. I'm not sure it's fair to expect AWS to freely support outdated K8s versions, that don't have upstream
by watermelon0 2y ago
EKS release cycle is related to Kubernetes release cycle. I'm not sure it's fair to expect AWS to freely support outdated K8s versions, that don't have upstream support.
If K8s would be backwards compatible, upgrading would be a lot easier, and if they would support LTS releases, like other projects, manual upgrades would be needed only every X years.
For example, the reason that you can use PostgreSQL with the same major version for 5 years on RDS is due to PostgreSQL actively supporting it, and minor versions are non-breaking and can be seamlessly applied (restart or failover to standby replica is still needed during upgrade).
- JohnMakin 2y agoCompletely understand why it is this way, and like I said I don't know the solution - unless AWS was able to or would want to fork Kubernetes in the same way that they did ElasticSearch, but that is understandable why they may not want to do that. Was mostly just griping that this process is a complete pain in the ass for tons of people (IME).