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Support for Zonal Shift in EKS clusters

EKS now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift that enhances the resiliency of multi-AZ cluster environments. With AWS Zonal Shift, customers can shift in-cluster traffic away from an impaired availability zone, ensuring new Kubernetes pods and nodes are launched in healthy availability zones only.

Creating a cluster with zonal shift enabled

# zonal-shift-cluster.yaml
---
apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: highly-available-cluster
  region: us-west-2


zonalShiftConfig:
  enabled: true
$ eksctl create cluster -f zonal-shift-cluster.yaml

Enabling zonal shift on an existing cluster

To enable or disable zonal shift on an existing cluster, run

$ eksctl utils update-zonal-shift-config -f zonal-shift-cluster.yaml

or without a config file:

$ eksctl utils update-zonal-shift-config --cluster=zonal-shift-cluster --enabled

Further information