Dear pulumi people, is there already support for AWS EKS Auto Mode? If not, when may it be available via which provider/interface?

Hey, we'll be able to pull it into

pulumi-aws

as soon as support for it is released in the upstream terraform provider (tracking issue). Good news is that the PR for this has already been merged upstream and it's slated for the next release. We'll pull it into

pulumi-aws

shortly after. We also have a feature request for bringing this to

pulumi-eks

(issue), please upvote it if you're interested in that.

pulumi-aws-native

should get support for auto-mode as soon as it's available in the cloudformation schema. I see that the cloudformation docs already list it, so I'm expecting it to land very soon.

Thanks for the quick clarifications!

We just released v6.63.0 of

pulumi-aws

and v1.13.0 of

pulumi-aws-native

was released earlier today. Those releases include support for EKS auto mode. At the same time I started working on bringing this to

pulumi-eks

🚀

Curious why they aren't using Karpenter for Auto Mode and require node groups to be migrated - any views on this?

They are actually using Karpenter under the hood! 🙂 You can think of it like "Managed Karpenter", the big difference being that you do not have direct access (SSH or SSM) to the nodes and EKS pre-installs components like pod networking. The CRD for Nodepool is even from Karpenter itself: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/create-node-pool.html