eksctl 0.204.0

Release v0.204.0

🚀 Features

• Enable NVIDIA Plugin automatically for AL2023 GPU AMIs (#8199)
• Added EBS IO2 volumeType support to Managed NodeGroup (#7989)
• Enable Bottlerocket on Neuron Instance types (Inferentia and Trainium) (#8173)

🎯 Improvements

• pre-Generate EC2 instance type details out of band (#8206)
• New EFA plugin images need a new volume for EFA plugin to mount - /dev/infiniband (#8201)
• Add addon name to some logging lines (#8200)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update building with golang 1.24 (#8210)
• Update aws-node to v1.19.2 (#8160)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @BhowmickSumit, @Juneezee, @alexandear, @dims and @vigh-m.