AWS EKS - NodeGroup Update Instance Types

4/5/2020

I'm currently have a Kubernetes Application using AWS EKS. I also created nodegroup; initial I provisioned low instance capacity on that nodeGroup can only handle 4 pods. When I tried to rollout an update on my deployments error occurred insufficient pods, this is mainly due to the under capacity instance type that I initially provision. My question is it possible to update the live nodeGroup instancetype?

I solved the problem though by creating additional nodegroup with scaled up instance type. I'm just wondering if it's possible to edit the live nodegroup instance type for scaling up.

-- Edcel Cabrera Vista
amazon-eks
amazon-web-services
kubernetes

1 Answer

4/5/2020

EKS nodegroups instance types cannot be changed after creation. You'll have to create a new node group every time you'd like a new instance type.

-- Yaron Idan
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