EKS Support in the AWS Provider

Feature status: Stable
Feature gate (required): EKS=true
Feature gate (optional): EKSEnableIAM=true,EKSAllowAddRoles=true

Overview

The AWS provider supports creating EKS based cluster. Currently the following features are supported:

Provisioning/managing an Amazon EKS Cluster
Upgrading the Kubernetes version of the EKS Cluster
Attaching a self-managed machines as nodes to the EKS cluster
Creating a machine pool and attaching it to the EKS cluster. See machine pool docs for details.
Creating a managed machine pool and attaching it to the EKS cluster. See machine pool docs for details
Managing "EKS Addons". See addons for further details
Creating an EKS fargate profile
Managing aws-iam-authenticator configuration

Note: machine pools and fargate profiles are still classed as experimental.

The implementation introduces the following CRD kinds:

AWSManagedControlPlane - specifies the EKS Cluster in AWS and used by the Cluster API AWS Managed Control plane (MACP)
AWSManagedMachinePool - defines the managed node pool for the cluster
EKSConfig - used by Cluster API bootstrap provider EKS (CABPE)

And a number of new templates are available in the templates folder for creating a managed workload cluster.