v1.6.0 Release Candidate 2

Second release candidate for the v1.6.0 branch.

Note! This release is not yet meant for production use, it is still being tested.

Changes since v1.6.0-rc1

• 79b7fd2 Clean up leaked ENIs on startup (@mogren)
• 547e736 Added retryNbackoff for tagENI method (@nithu0115)
• 1ab8a1d Return delete success for pods that never got scheduled (@mogren)
• 08401ed Update backoff code from upstream and use when detaching ENIs (@mogren)
• 8e734eb Add support for g4dn instance family (@mogren)

If you want to test this release candidate in your own cluster, patch the aws-node daemonset:

kubectl patch daemonset aws-node \
-n kube-system \
-p '{"spec": {"template": {"spec": {"containers": [{"image": "602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-k8s-cni:v1.6.0-rc2","name":"aws-node"}]}}}}'

Verify the update:

kubectl describe daemonset aws-node -n kube-system | grep Image | cut -d "/" -f 2

amazon-k8s-cni:v1.6.0-rc2