v1.18.0-alpha.0

This is the first alpha version of the external AWS cloud provider.

The cloud provider now runs out-of-tree in a new cloud-controller-manager component.
The external provider preserves all existing behavior/functionality from the legacy in-tree provider.

Example manifests to deploy the external cloud provider can be found here.

Supports Kubernetes v1.18.X.

Prerequisite

• same prerequisites as legacy in-tree implementation
• kubelet, kube-apiserver and kube-controller-manager are running with --cloud-provider=external