v1.5.5 Release Candidate 1

First release candidate for the v1.5.5 branch.

Note! This release candidate is not meant for production use, it is still being tested.

Some important changes since v1.5.4:

• Bug fix - Revert "Return delete success for pods that never got scheduled" (#667, @mogren)
• Improvement - Add support for r5dn instance family (#656, @mogren)
• Improvement - Add support for m5n/m5dn/r5n instances (#657, @Jeffwan)
• Improvement - Update cni-metrics-helper to v1.5.5 (#672, @mogren)

If you want to test this release candidate in your own cluster, patch the aws-node daemonset:

kubectl patch daemonset aws-node \
-n kube-system \
-p '{"spec": {"template": {"spec": {"containers": [{"image": "602401143452.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/amazon-k8s-cni:v1.5.5-rc1","name":"aws-node"}]}}}}'

Verify the update:

kubectl describe daemonset aws-node -n kube-system | grep Image | cut -d "/" -f 2

amazon-k8s-cni:v1.5.5-rc1