[eks] [request]: Support surging updates for MNGs
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**Tell us about your request**
I'd like EKS Managed Node Groups (MNGs) to have an option to surge when updating instead of needing to terminate an instance before adding a new one. This would make the new compute capacity be available before any terminations so pod have somewhere to be re-scheduled.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
When updating MNGs we regularly see issues caused by a lack of capacity for terminated pods to run on, this is a major issue when running stateful workloads across AZs with PDBs (K8s best practice).
**Are you currently working around this issue?**
I can't use MNGs while this behaviour isn't supported.
**Additional context**
See #1865
**Attachments**
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Research direction
The request concerns EKS Managed Node Groups and references related issue #1865. Start by reading #1865 and the request details to define how surge behavior should work; done means MNG updates can add replacement capacity before terminating existing instances, including for stateful workloads with PDBs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, kubernetes
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100