Right now we instruct the user to disable built-in VPC CNI driver by running the following command:

kubectl -n kube-system set image daemonset/aws-node aws-node=docker.io/spaster/alpine-sleep

This is an effective solution, however conceptually it may seem a little odd to the user. Also, if user follows EKS upgrade instructions without knowing that this was done at some stage earlier, they will put the VPC CNI driver back and break Cilium.