Automate planned lifecycle upgrades with AWS DevOps Agent and Kiro

AWS DevOps Agent and Kiro can be combined to automate end-of-support lifecycle upgrades triggered by AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events. The pipeline detects the event via EventBridge, has AWS DevOps Agent investigate the upgrade path and produce a structured CDK Change Spec, then runs Kiro CLI headlessly in GitHub Actions to apply validated code changes to an EKS cluster stack and open a pull request for human review. Safety constraints include single-minor-version upgrades, a 7-day rollback window, vpc-cni ordering before node groups, file-change allowlists restricting Kiro to a single file, and build/synthesis validation gates. A closed-loop failure path automatically investigates deployment failures, recommends rollback or a code fix, and notifies SREs. A daily skill-review job checks the agent's skill files against live AWS APIs to keep upgrade logic current. Sample code and a getting-started walkthrough for deploying the full pipeline are provided.

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