A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO SECURELY UPGRADING YOUR EKS CLUSTERS

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

A guide to upgrading EKS clusters that includes an overview as well as detailed commands. Kubernetes supports security updates for the current and previous 2 minor versions, which means that version upgrades are frequently necessary. During upgrades, users are responsible for initiating the upgrade and upgrading the data plane whereas AWS manages the control plane upgrades.