Updates for aws_eks_node_group - launch template and custom AMI

[LozanoMatheus]

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Description

Recently, AWS announced the support for launch template and custom AMI via EKS node Group.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_eks_node_group

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_launch_template" "example" {
  name = var.lc_name
  ...
}

resource "aws_eks_node_group" "example" {
  cluster_name    = aws_eks_cluster.example.name
  node_group_name = "example"
  node_role_arn   = aws_iam_role.example.arn
  subnet_ids      = aws_subnet.example[*].id

  launch_template {
    name    = aws_launch_template.example.name ## or var.lc_name
    version = aws_launch_template.example.latest_version
    id      = aws_launch_template.example.id
  }

  ami_type = "AL2_x86_64"

  scaling_config {
    desired_size = 1
    max_size     = 1
    min_size     = 1
  }
}

References

• Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
  
• Introducing launch template and custom AMI support in Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups
• AWS CLI - create-nodegroup

[bflad]

Hi @LozanoMatheus 👋 Thank you for submitting this feature request. This is covered by the previous #14702, so to consolidate efforts and discussions, I'm going to close this issue in preference of the existing one. Please 👍 upvote and subscribe there for further updates.

[ghost]

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