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[EKS]: eksctl support status update #2280

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mikestef9 opened this issue Feb 6, 2024 · 2 comments
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[EKS]: eksctl support status update #2280

mikestef9 opened this issue Feb 6, 2024 · 2 comments
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AWS is aware of the recent announcement from Weaveworks about shutting down commercial operations. In addition to their significant contributions to the the CNCF and open source, Weaveworks has been a great partner to EKS and we are continuously grateful to Weaveworks for their leadership and development of the eksctl project.

In 2019, AWS and Weaveworks formed a partnership to designate the open-source eksctl CLI tool as the officially supported CLI for Amazon EKS, driven by significant customer demand and the tool's capability to streamline and automate numerous EKS cluster management tasks. Since then, EKS as a service has evolved, implementing features that closed some of those early automation gaps. eksctl has always stayed a step ahead, adding usability enhancements before similar features are built into EKS service APIs.

Last year, AWS and Weaveworks announced a renewed partnership to co-develop eksctl. As part of that announcement, the eksctl project was moved under the shared /eksctl-io GitHub organization, and AWS engineers were added as project maintainers. Moving forward, AWS will take over full responsibility and ownership of the eksctl. We plan to continue development to meet the needs of customers with continued frequent eksctl releases. We are fully committed to the ongoing development and maintenance of eksctl. Later in 2024, we will move the eksctl project repo to the /aws GitHub organization. We will leave this issue open in case of any questions, comments, or concerns.

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colinbjohnson commented Feb 20, 2024

Although this outcome is "good" (many people will still be able to use this tool) it is rare for a company to end up utilizing a third party to create official tooling (eksctl: "CLI for Amazon EKS").

It seems uncommon that a company of AWS size/revenue/profit would end up in a situation where approximately 4,590 documentation pages and approximately 152 "workshop" pages reference or require a tool that is developed by a third-party and almost ceased to exist.

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Understand how some might see it that way but the reality is this has been developed in conjunction with Weave for the last 3 years. We’ve provided direct hands-on support and our PM team has worked directly with engineers on the project to guide it forward. While most large tech companies do tend to do a lot themselves, we think an amazing aspect of OSS and our approach is the ability to deeply partner with people outside of AWS to create useful tools. We fully support eksctl and it was never in danger of going away.

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