eks-upgrade-readiness
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Use this skill when a user asks to assess, plan, or validate an Amazon EKS cluster upgrade. Activate on requests mentioning "EKS upgrade", "Kubernetes version upgrade", "upgrade readiness", "upgrade plan", "pre-upgrade check", "version skew", "deprecated API", "addon compatibility", "node group upgrade", "control plane upgrade", "EKS end of support", "EKS extended support", "Karpenter drift", "kubelet version skew", or "blue-green cluster migration". It runs a pre-upgrade assessment per the AWS EKS Best Practices Guide, covering infrastructure prerequisites, EKS Upgrade Insights, API deprecations, addon compatibility, full data plane inventory (managed/self-managed nodes, Karpenter, Auto Mode, Fargate), AL2 to AL2023 migration, PDB/topology and StatefulSet safety, capacity planning, and pre/post-upgrade validation, then produces a scored readiness verdict with prioritized remediation. Do NOT use for ECS, general EKS troubleshooting unrelated to version upgrades, or EKS Anywhere/Outpost clusters.
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