We’ve upgraded several components, most notably Karpenter, mid cycle to fix several bugs. This resolves the AWS notice regarding a defect in Karpenter’s AMI drift detection logic, which could lead to unexpected, unneeded, node replacements. We have rolled out the update to all our managed environments.
The list of upgrades can be found below, click each link for full chaneglog details:
- amazon-eks-ami v20240605
- Fix for issues regarding Nvidia drivers and instance types in the g4 and g5 families
- Fix in Nvidia driver addressing CVE‑2024‑0090 and CVE‑2024‑0092
- aws-ebs-csi-driver v1.31.0-eksbuild.1
- Decrease median dynamic provisioning time by 1.5 seconds
- aws-vpc-cni v1.18.2-eksbuild.1
- cluster-autoscaler v1.29.3
- Fixes for broken scale-up
- karpenter v0.37.0
- Fixes defect in AMI drift detection logic