Cluster API Provider AWS (CAPA) Update
summary
Cluster API Provider AWS is at v0.6 and provisions VPCs, subnets, security groups and EC2 control plane nodes using clusterawsadm and published AMIs; the release adds multi-tenant IAM role assumption per cluster so management clusters can assume different workload-account roles, and introduces aws machine pools (Auto Scaling Groups via launch templates) plus EKS managed-control-plane support and managed machine pools. EC2 state changes now trigger reconciles via EventBridge+SQS (previously could take up to 10 minutes), and the project adds spot/dedicated instance support, an AWS request throttler, and a 0.7 roadmap focused on stability and EKS feature parity.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:32Agenda
- 1:50Infrastructure agnostic
- 2:59CAPA Architecture
- 5:41What isCAPA
- 6:46CAPA diagram
- 9:34New Features
- 17:43More Features
- 21:32IAM Role Creation
- 23:23AWS Managed Control Plane
- 24:57Roadmap
- 25:52Upcoming features
- 28:01How to get started
- 29:11How to contribute








