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Install eksctl

The official CLI for Amazon EKS

Install with winget
winget install --id eksctl.eksctl
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id eksctl.eksctl
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id eksctl.eksctl

About eksctl

eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2. It is written in Go, and uses CloudFormation.

What's new in 0.229.0

Release v0.229.0 πŸš€ Features - Add cluster version rollback support with rollbackConfig (#8780) - Add support for EKS on Outposts with EC2 instance store (#8774) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @DimitriPL5 and @michaelhtm.

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
0.229.0 Unknown Release v0.229.0 πŸš€ Features - Add cluster version rollback support with rollbackConfig (#8780) - Add support for EKS on Outposts with EC2 instance store (#8774) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to sincer...
0.228.0 Unknown Release v0.228.0 πŸš€ Features - feat: add support for controlPlaneEgressMode (#8770) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @cxbrowne1207.
0.227.0 Unknown Release v0.227.0 πŸ› Bug Fixes - fix: missing Karpenter permission (#8749) - fix: Regionalize all container images in UseRegionalImage() (#8744) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @candono...
0.226.0 Unknown Release v0.226.0 πŸš€ Features - Adding support for upgrading eks hybrid nodes on EKS clusters (#8719) - feat(ubuntu): add support for resolute (#8683) πŸ› Bug Fixes - Populate role ARN from stack outputs on NoChangeError in...
0.225.0 Unknown Release v0.225.0 πŸš€ Features - Honour permissionPolicyName for pod identity inline IAM policies (#8675) - feat: add fargate profile support for EKS internal endpoint (#8694) - feat: add permissions for ECR Public containe...
0.224.0 Unknown Release v0.224.0 πŸš€ Features - Add Gateway API ELB cleanup support for eksctl cluster deletion (#8664) - Update go mod and go sum to use the latest nodeAdm api (#8677) 🎯 Improvements - Add Gateway API ELB cleanup support...
0.223.0 Unknown Release v0.223.0 πŸš€ Features - add support to policy for pod-identity-association create and update (#8674) πŸ› Bug Fixes - change ubuntu ami family to 2404 (#8670) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to since...
0.222.0 Unknown Release v0.222.0 πŸš€ Features - Add support for EKS Windows Server 2025 in eksctl (#8648) - Allow wildcard matching of service account subject (#8629) 🎯 Improvements - Bump aws-sdk-go-v2 versions to support aws login (#866...
0.221.0 Unknown Release v0.221.0 🎯 Improvements - added support us-isob-west-1 region (#8602) πŸ› Bug Fixes - Fix failures in cluster deletion in regions without capability support (#8631) - Add taints for AL2023 NodeGroups as tolerations...
0.220.0 Unknown Release v0.220.0 πŸš€ Features - Add support for EKS Capability (#8603) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker.
0.219.0 Unknown Release v0.219.0 πŸ’₯ Breaking Changes - Make AL2023 be the default for all k8s version to handle AL2 deprecation (#8593) πŸš€ Features - support Al2023 on outposts (#8599) 🎯 Improvements - Make AL2023 be the default for all k...
0.218.0 Unknown Release v0.218.0 πŸš€ Features - Add support for ControlPlaneScalingConfig (#8590) 🎯 Improvements - Enable termination protection by default for eksctl CFN stacks (#8586) Acknowledgments The eksctl maintainers would like to...
0.217.0 Unknown Release v0.217.0 πŸš€ Features - feat: Add enhanced node repair configuration support (#8512) πŸ› Bug Fixes - Fix issue with upgrade policy not being applied (#8577) 🧰 Maintenance - Update nvidia-device-plugin to v0.18.0 (#85...
0.216.0 Unknown Release v0.216.0 πŸš€ Features - Add support for ap-southeast-6 (#8544) - feat: add support for UpgradePolicy attribute in cluster creation (#8534) 🎯 Improvements - Fix upgrade vpc-cni test relying on assumptions about vpc...
0.215.0 Unknown Release v0.215.0 πŸš€ Features - automatic security group tagging for karpenter (#8501) 🎯 Improvements - fix: use default security group for eks 1.33+ when EFA is enabled (#8509) - fix: karpenter tagging, addons and flaky i...
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