Release 0.35.0-rc.0

Features

• get/delete/drain support for non-eksctl created managed nodegroups (#2911)
• Support upgrading non eksctl clusters (#2815)

Improvements

• Have kubelet use systemd cgroup driver on al2 and ubuntu (#2962)
• Update maxpods (#2957)
• Update aws-node (#2958)
• Add AutoscalingGroupName to nodegroupsummary (#2820)
• add sub condition to vpc-cni addon policy (#2948)
• Deprecate v1.14 (#2941)
• Bump eks/pause infra container image (#2932)
• Bump k8s dependencies (#2907)
• Update ALB policy, now AWS load balancer controller policy (#2914)
• Deprecate static AMI resolver (#2661)
• Update aws-node and make tests less brittle (#2920)

Bug Fixes

• encrypt bottlerocket os volume (#2952)
• Don't run bootstrap scripts twice and before preBootstrap (#2924)
• fix panic in VPC loading (#2933)
• treat remote VPC as source of truth (#2928)
• Do not set a default value for nodeGroup.ami (#2927)
• Only use aws-node service account on cluster creation (#2917)

Acknowledgments

Weaveworks would like to sincerely thank:
@Callisto13, @hacker65536, @neha-viswanathan, @reegnz and @weaveworksbot