Support for Amazon EKS 1.12 Clusters

[christopherhein]

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Why do you want this feature?
Everyone should be able to use the latest EKS version. :)

aws/containers-roadmap#24

What feature/behavior/change do you want?
Support for create'ing and update'ing existing clusters with Kubernetes 1.12.

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[whereisaaron]

It looks like it is always the case we need to update eksctl and cut a new release before we can upgrade to a new k8s version. Is there sufficient AW API to enable discovering the available control plane version and matching AMI versions? Or it inevitably a manual task?

[tabern]

@whereisaaron I think this will solve the problem you are describing aws/containers-roadmap#231

[whereisaaron]

That sounds great for the AMI versions @tabern. @errordeveloper also mentioned that there is also currently no way to know what control plane versions are available? (to CF)