Release v0.177.0

🚀 Features

• Add utils command to migrate iamidentitymappings to EKS access entries (#7710)
• Add support for Ubuntu Pro 22.04 based EKS images (#7711)

🎯 Improvements

• Handle K8s service account lifecycle on eksctl create/delete podidentityassociation commands (#7706)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix reusing instanceRoleARN for nodegroups authorized with access entry (#7707)
• Allow nodegroup creation after a cluster subnet is deleted (#7714)
• Fix arn build logic to support different aws partitions (#7715)

🧰 Maintenance

• Disable IMDSv1 in unowned integration tests (#7722)

Acknowledgments

The eksctl maintainers would like to sincerely thank @punkwalker, @veekaly, @aciba90 and @timandy