Karpenter releases

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases

2024

• Aug 2024 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/announcing-karpenter-1-0/

• Mar 2024 https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.35.0
  • Add AssociatePublicIpAddress to EC2NodeClass
  • Chart: Added cosign signature
  • Add minValues flexibility to the NodePool requirement
  • Changed OCI tag format
  • AL2023 AMI family support

2023

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.34.0
  • Add build_info metric with version, sha, golang_version labels
  • Add support for mounted instance-store ephemeral storage

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.33.0
  • Add spec.instanceProfile field
  • Support vpc.amazonaws.com/efa resource

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.32.0
  • Add imageID status field
  • Adding CEL validation for the EC2NodeClass
  • v1beta1
  • CEL Validation for NodeClaim Requirement
  • CEL Validation for NodePool.Spec.Template Labels (#4906)

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.31.0
  • Support kubelet graceful shutdown for Bottlerocket
  • Add cloudformation describe stack step on create cluster failure
  • Instance tagging controller
  • Add instance profile generation for v1beta1/NodeClass

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.30.0
  • AWSNodeTemplate Static Drift
  • Adding AssumeRoleARN and AssumeRoleDuration options to karpenter config
  • Add Windows custom userdata support

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.29.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.28.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.27.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.26.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.25.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.24.0
• https://github.com/aws/karpenter-provider-aws/releases/tag/v0.23.0

• Jan 2023 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.22.0
  • Support k8s-1.25, remove support for k8s-1.20

2022

• Dec 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.21.0
  • Drift controller implementation
  • Support comma separated tag values in subnetSelector
  • Support comma separated tag values in securityGroupSelector

• https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.20.0
  • add multi-node consolidation (#2907) #2907 (Todd Neal)
  • Add log debugging tool for integ environment (#2946) #2946 (Ellis Tarn)
  • Allow node annotations to be set by the provisioner (#2934) #2934 (Ellis Tarn)
  • Add support for Gaudi (Habana) accelerators (#2844) #2844 (DanielJuravski)

• Nov 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.19.0

• Oct 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.18.0

• Oct 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.17.0
  • feat: Add evictionSoft support to kubeletConfiguration

• Aug 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.16.0
  • Weighted provisioners

• v0.16.2
  • Added evictionHard, kubeReserved and podsPerCore to Provisioner

• v0.16.3
  • New bot that periodically checks AWS APIs and updates auto generated files

• v0.15.0
  • Workload Consolidation

• Apr 2022 https://github.com/aws/karpenter/releases/tag/v0.8.2

See also

• Karpenter, karpenter.sh, provisioners.karpenter.sh, Karpenter releases, best practices, karpenter.sh/capacity-type, karpenter.sh/discovery, kind: Provisioner, kind: AWSNodeTemplate, kubectl provisioner, TopologyKey, FailedDraining, Evict, DisruptionBlocked, Karpenter logs, controller., ttlSecondsUntilExpired, KEDA, NodePools, Kind: NodePool, Workload Consolidation, Disruption controls

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/08/workload-consolidation-karpenter/