Moving forward with v5 of EKS Blueprints

[fcarta29]

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This issue is being created to provide community notice and to help track the work and cutover to v5 of EKS Blueprints. More details of the changes can be found here:
Direction for v5 of EKS Blueprints
Motivation for v5 of EKS Blueprints

[Jumziey]

Do you have any ambitions when it comes to migrating from v4 to v5? It seems it will get complicated given the goals 🤔

That said, great initiative! We've been bothered by the same issues you describe and it seems like the correct way forward.

Edit: Did not get any direct answer but we can see an UPGRADE-5.0.md committed into the repository now so it would seem it's something they are thinking about quite a lot.

[mk2134226]

Any idea how long it will take for v5 to be production ready ? and how long you guys will maintain / patch / update v4 ?

[fcarta29]

FAQ for v5

When will v5 be GA and ready for production?
EKS Blueprints are community driven examples of how to build on AWS EKS. Only AWS services like AWS EKS have formal release dates, are officially supported, and are certified as production ready.

How long you guys will v4 be maintained and updated?
Once v5 reaches development/refactoring readiness and testing is complete, notice will be made to the community via this issue and on the top level README.md regarding when cross over from v4 to v5 will be merged. From this point v4 will be tagged/branched and left for those who desire to remain on v4 and for historical context. No further development/updates will occur for v4 and all future changes will only occur on the main v5 version.

What examples are being moved and where are they going?

• examples/ai-ml/ray (moved) -> https://github.com/awslabs/data-on-eks/tree/main/ai-ml/terraform/ray
• examples/analytics/* (moved) -> https://github.com/awslabs/data-on-eks/tree/main/analytics
• examples/node-groups (moved) ->https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/tree/master/examples
• examples/OTHERS (TBD) …

[askulkarni2]

@Hokwang for the moment we will keep using the existing IRSA module in the new addons repo.