v1.6.3 Release Candidate 1

First release candidate for CNI v1.6.3. This pre-release image is only available in us-west-2.
The main reason for this patch release to address issue #1008 by cherry picking the fix in PR #1011 to the 1.6 branch.

• Bug - Handle stale instance metadata (#1011, @mogren)
• Improvement - Add support for c5a and c5ad (#1003, @mogren)
• Improvement - Make aws-cni-support.sh executable (#1007, @jayanthvn)

If you want to test this release candidate in one of your clusters, you can use this sample aws-node daemonset config:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/release-1.6.3/config/v1.6/aws-k8s-cni.yaml

Verify the update:

kubectl describe ds aws-node -n kube-system | grep Image | cut -d ":" -f 2-3

602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-k8s-cni:v1.6.3-rc1

To test version v1.6.3-rc1 of the cni-metrics-helper in a cluster:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/release-1.6.3/config/v1.6/cni-metrics-helper.yaml