CRE-2025-0061
\- EKS may be able to handle steady, predictable scale, but struggles during large‑scale auto scaling events when many workloads and nodes are spinning up or down simultaneously.
\- EKS may be able to handle steady, predictable scale, but struggles during large‑scale auto scaling events when many workloads and nodes are spinning up or down simultaneously.
\- Karpenter logs an error when its current version is not compatible with the running Kubernetes control plane version.
Karpenter is unable to provision new nodes because the current Karpenter version is not compatible with Kubernetes version . This incompatibility causes validation errors in the nodeclass controller and prevents pods from being scheduled properly in the cluster.