aws eks update-kubeconfig invalid apiVersion while using Github linux runners

[kyandaks]

Describe the bug

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME} --region ${REGION}
The above command executes successfully in the GitHub Action workflow but when I run
kubectl apply -f manifest.yml
I get the error below:
error: exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1"

Expected Behavior

Usually it would start the deployment to the EKS cluster

Current Behavior

I am currently getting the error below:
error: exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1"

Upon checking the kubectl version --client --output=yaml, it is on version 1.24.0.

Reproduction Steps

The issue opened here suggested that one should downgrade kubectl from 1.24.0 as seen here - #6920 but this is a bit hard with GitHub hosted runners as OS updates are managed by them

Possible Solution

When I reached out to AWS support, the engineer suggested that he is going to accelerate this to the AWS EKS Service team. For reference - Case ID 10018756571

Additional Information/Context

No response

CLI version used

the version is managed by the GitHub team

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Linux - Ubuntu 20.04

[beeshalrizal]

same here

[kyandaks]

For now downgrading the kubectl version from 1.24.0 is the best work around.
With GitHub runners, this action by Azure comes in handy - https://github.com/Azure/setup-kubectl

• uses: azure/[email protected]
  with:
  version: 'v1.23.6' # default is latest stable
  id: install

[kyandaks]

same here

Use solution I have posted above meanwhile.
Run it after setting up kubeconfig
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name ${EKS_CLUSTER_NAME} --region ${REGION}

[tim-finnigan]

I'm going to resolve this as a duplicate of #6920. Will post an update there shortly.

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[singaravelanpalani]

sudo apt install kubectl=1.23.6-00

It's broken with kubectl version 1.24. Downgrade to 1.23.6 will fix the issue for now