Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS

Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by gtirloni on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:20PM (#38521795)

Kubernetes LTS goes by different names: AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, SUSE Rancher, etc.

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by mardifoufs on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:38PM (#38522695)

Aks is usually like one version behind, and they deprecate older versions every 3 months IIRC. In a one year window of versions, that's not necessarily long term at all. The upgrade process is surprisingly kind of okay though, which is already a lot better than what I usually expect from Azure.

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by watermelon0 on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:28PM (#38521913)

Not sure about the others, but AWS EKS support closely follows upstream.

Only recently they released paid extended support in preview, which extends support for an additional year.

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by Arnavion on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:52PM (#38522240)

EKS still supports 1.24+ as part of "standard support". Upstream only supports 1.26+ (upstream's policy is "latest 3 versions").

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by sciurus on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:39PM (#38522712)

EKS also added support for 1.24 seven months after the upstream release date.

https://endoflife.date/amazon-eks

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by Kelkonosemmel on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:40PM (#38522720)

GKE does Auto upgrade and enforces them.

You can't get a really old k8s version on gke

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by emb3dded on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:41PM (#38523515)

AKS has LTS: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-availabl...

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Re:Why Kubernetes Needs an LTS by hot_gril on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:09PM (#38525200)

Is GKE actually much more stable? That's funny if so.

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