I will do your eks kubernetes version upgrade and deprecation audit
Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Kubernetes Expert, AWS Certified
Over deze dienst
Is your EKS cluster out of standard support? Two things are now true: you are paying $0.60 per cluster hour for extended support about $4,380 a year extra per cluster and when extended support ends, AWS can auto-upgrade your control plane at any time, with no advance notice.
You also can't opt into extended support retroactively once standard support has lapsed.
An EKS upgrade is not a console click. A safe one sequences the control plane, add-ons, managed node groups, self-managed nodes, Fargate, Karpenter, PodDisruptionBudgets, deprecated APIs, admission webhooks and workload rollouts in that order.
What you get:
- Deprecated API scan across every workload and Helm release
- Add-on and controller compatibility matrix for your target version
- Karpenter, KEDA, CSI driver and webhook version checks
- containerd 2.x, cgroup v2 and Amazon Linux 2023 readiness
- Step-by-step upgrade runbook with rollback points
I run the audit read-only. You see the risk list before anything changes.
Send me your cluster version and I'll tell you what will break.
Tools:
Kubernetes
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Amazon EKS
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Google Kubernetes Engine
Frameworks:
Terraform
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Pulumi
Programmeertaal:
Bash
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Python
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PowerShell
Expertise:
Migratie
Veelgestelde vragen
We're already in extended support — is that fine?
It works, but it costs roughly $4,380/year per cluster and it ends. Once it does, AWS upgrades you on its own schedule, not yours.
Can you skip multiple versions at once?
EKS upgrades one minor version at a time. Multiple hops = multiple sequenced steps, which is the Premium tier.
Will our workloads go down?
Control plane upgrades are non-disruptive when done right. Node rotation is where risk sits, and that's what PodDisruptionBudget review and staged draining are for.
Do you need admin?
Read-only for the audit. The upgrade tier needs scoped write access.
Can you do this on a recurring basis?
Yes — that's what most clients end up doing, since the deadline returns roughly every 14 months.
