[EKS] [request]: Provide a way to learn the latest kubernetes version of EKS.

[yutachaos]

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Tell us about your request I want an endpoint or cli function that can get the current available version of EKS.

Which service(s) is this request for? EKS

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?

When a new EKS version becomes available, I want to run automatic tests against the cluster.

For example, the following cli.

aws eks available-versions 
{
   "versions":[
      "1.17.6",
      "1.16.8",
      "1.15.11"
   ]
}

or Provide such information endpoint.

Are you currently working around this issue? Not done yet.

[berrac-hp]

It would be interesting if such api call provides not only the supported kubernetes versions but also the recommended versions of aws-cni, coredns and kube-proxy for each version...

[yuval-orca]

it will be great if this CLI command will list all currently available EKS versions so that we'll be able to know when a new version has launched and also when a version has been deprecated so that we'll create automation around it.

[evertonevaristo]

maybe this could help as a temporary solution:

aws eks describe-addon-versions | jq -r ".addons[] | .addonVersions[] | .compatibilities[] | .clusterVersion" | sort | uniq | tail -n 1

[mikestef9]

Moving to We're working on it. The API will look something like

aws eks describe-cluster-versions 
{
  "clusterVersions": [
    {
      "clusterVersion": "string", #EKS cluster version in major.minor format, used as input when creating a cluster
      "clusterType": : "string", #Valid values are "eks" or "eks-local-outposts"
      "defaultPlatformVersion": "string", # EKS platform version. Only the latest platform version is returned
      "defaultVersion": boolean, #Flag to indicate if the cluster version is default or not when creating a new cluster for the specified cluster type
      "clusterVersionDescription": "string",
      "releaseDate": number,
      "endOfStandardSupportDate": number, 
"endOfExtendedSupportDate": number, 
      "status": "string" #unsupported, standard-support, extended-support
    },
    ...
  ]
}