Containers-roadmap: [EKS]: Kubernetes v1.11 End of Support (Nov 4, 2019)

[mikestef9]

In line with the Kubernetes community support for Kubernetes versions, Amazon EKS 1.11 is now deprecated and will no longer be supported on Nov 4, 2019. On this day, you will no longer be able to create new 1.11 clusters and all EKS clusters running Kubernetes version 1.11 will be updated to the latest available platform version of Kubernetes version 1.12.

We recommend customers upgrade existing 1.11 or 1.12 clusters and worker nodes to at least 1.13 as soon as practical.

Learn more:

• Updates to Amazon EKS Version Lifecycle
• Amazon EKS Kubernetes Versions

[dcopestake]

Is there any possibility of the Windows preview being updated to a more recent version? At the moment I'm stuck using 1.11 purely because of this.

[dcopestake]

So, didn't really fully appreciate the significance of this - in that clusters will be _automatically_ upgraded from 1.11 to 1.12 on November 4th. So what is the plan for those of us currently running clusters on 1.11 to participate in the Windows nodes preview?

[dcopestake]

To quote @mikestef9's reply in #69

GA availability for EKS Windows will be released before 1.11 is no longer supported.

[mikestef9]

@dcopestake Windows GA has been launched

[dcopestake]

Amazing, thanks @mikestef9!

[Kylepossible]

I noticed EKS 1.11 creation of clusters nor auto-upgrade has taken effect? Any ETA when this will happen?

[hugoprudente]

Hi team,

From this date Nov 4, 2019 following the guidelines EKS Version LifeCycle the v1.12 would be marked to EOS (End Of Support) on February 02, 2020 as it's +90 days from the latest announcement.

Do we have any information about it, so we can prepare?

[mikestef9]

Hi @hugoprudente

We will announce the deprecation of v1.12 when we launch support for v1.15. From that announcement, you will have 60 days to upgrade existing 1.12 clusters before automatic updates start rolling out.