Moving EKS add-ons from self-managed to managed

EKS add-ons are like plugins for your Kubernetes cluster. They provide operational capabilities support to Kubernetes applications. There are quite a number of add-ons provided by AWS and these can be either self-managed or managed. Examples of these are kube-proxy, coredns and vpc-cni.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/eks-add-ons.html

For self-managed add-ons, you will be handling their maintenance and upgrade. You will have to update the manifest and deploy it to your cluster, whereas for managed add-ons…