Upgrades

This section focuses on advanced configurations as well as most critical upgrades for Workload Clusters.

• Fine-tuning upgrade disruption
  The level of disruption caused by cluster upgrades can be influenced per cluster. This article explains how to adjust the number of nodes that is updated simlutaneously, and the wait time between batches of nodes.
• Giant Swarm Release v19.0.0 for AWS
  AWS release v19 besides many improvements will introduce migration of Cilium as well as replacement of kiam with IRSA. Following handbook should be carefully read by customers upfront the upgrade to prepare the clusters and workloads accordingly.
• Giant Swarm Release v21.0.0
  Giant Swarm release v21 besides many improvements will introduce Kuberntes Release Version 1.25.x. Following handbook should be carefully read by customers upfront the upgrade to prepare the clusters and workloads accordingly.