Description

Observed Behavior:
DaemonSet(DS) pods circle in Failed -> Pending state on node which is consolidate and terminated later.
DS pods (like aws-node, kube-proxy) usually tolerates all Taints. Karpenter put Taint karpenter.sh/disrupted:NoSchedule on node, now DS pods get into Failed state and new pods in Pending state appear, extra not-ready taints are also added so newly scheduled pods are rejected. Repeats until node is terminated and removed from cluster.
When large amount of nodes is rotated in same time, our alerting is fired with false positive alerts about multiple pods swapping between Failed/Pending state.

See attached log files and screenshot.

eks-controller-logs.csv
karpenter-controller.log

We observer same issue on older versions, but not on versions 0.37 and below.

Expected Behavior:
We do not observe flipping state of DaemonSet pod between Failure/Pending during node consolidation/termination.

Reproduction Steps (Please include YAML):
Simply consolidate some node controlled by Karpenter and watch k8s cluster Events or EKS controller logs. You will see karpenter remove all pods from node expect DS + put there karpenter taint, DS pods get into Failed state -> transition to Pending state, not-ready taints are added to node, after ~ 1 minute node is terminated.

Versions:

• Chart Version: 1.2.1
• Kubernetes Version:

Client Version: v1.30.0
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.30.8-eks-2d5f260

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