There are a few dimensions of versioning to consider in your EKS Anywhere deployments:
- Management clusters to workload clusters: Management clusters can be at most 1 EKS Anywhere minor version greater than the EKS Anywhere version of workload clusters. Workload clusters cannot have an EKS Anywhere version greater than management clusters.
- Management components to cluster components: Management components can be at most 1 EKS Anywhere minor version greater than the EKS Anywhere version of cluster components.
- EKS Anywhere version upgrades: Skipping EKS Anywhere minor versions during upgrade is not supported (
v0.17.xtov0.19.x). We recommend you upgrade one EKS Anywhere minor version at a time (v0.17.xtov0.18.xtov0.19.x). - Kubernetes version upgrades: Skipping Kubernetes minor versions during upgrade is not supported (
v1.26.xtov1.28.x). You must upgrade one Kubernetes minor version at a time (v1.26.xtov1.27.xtov1.28.x). - Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes: As of Kubernetes v1.28, worker nodes can be up to 3 minor versions lower than the Kubernetes control plane minor version. In earlier Kubernetes versions, worker nodes could be up to 2 minor versions lower than the Kubernetes control plane minor version.