dongjoon-hyun edited a comment on issue #25641: [SPARK-28921][BUILD][K8S][2.4] 
Update kubernetes client to 4.4.2
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/25641#issuecomment-529271002
 
 
   @Jeffwan . First fo all, could you tell me if EKS provides a fallback option 
(to launch the previous working EKS 1.13.x versions) for that outage? If not, 
I'm very sorry about that because I'm one of the EKS customers.
   
   For the outage you mentioned, I believe you know that the other K8s users 
(including AWS customers who are using their own K8s services) with old K8s 
versions are not suffering from this. There are many users with various 
environments unlikely managed EKS. Given that, the above production outage from 
EKS environment may be considered as a hidden pitfall of managed service 
providers due to lack of the downstream testing (or lack of consideration on 
customer use cases).
   
   More importantly, you should not assume that customers always live on the 
latest Spark releases. In the customer production environments, there are many 
used versions simultaneously; 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4 (the last EOL 
release), 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4. So, new release cannot recover all 
production-down issues because old version' users have their reasons to stick 
to that. This is the reason why I think EKS had better provide a fallback 
option. You may recommend to upgrade Apache Spark versions, but what will 
happen if this kind of outages happens again and again frequently? We have many 
downstreams like EKS. As you know, technically, Apache Spark community didn't 
make a decision to break the customer production environments like this.
   
   Lastly, Apache Spark community is an independent community which has own 
release cycle and `2.4.4` is announced this Month and `2.4.3` was May 9th. We 
will release the next version when we have enough reasons to release.

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