[EKS]: Support For Kubernetes 1.18

[marcincuber]

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Support Kubernetes 1.18

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EKS

[gudipatiharitha]

Hi , could you please let us know the planned date for avaibility of this task in AWS, we need to plan our deployment based on that , we have a dependancy on CSI proxy for windows added in 1.18. Thank you

[abdennour]

Also we have a dependency on startupProbe which is beta feature in 1.18
#947

[mikhailjan]

We could really use the HorizontalPodAutoscaler behaviour functionality that was added in the v1.18 v2beta2 API. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/#support-for-configurable-scaling-behavior.

[stijndehaes]

For those who didn't see it yet, the EKS documentation now contains a release calendar with future releases in it:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/kubernetes-versions.html#kubernetes-release-calendar

[limewxr]

When can we know the exact release date of EKS 1.18? 😁

[lwimmer]

When can we know the exact release date of EKS 1.18?

When it is released 😬