Why can't I run Karpenter on a node that is managed by Karpenter?

• karpenter-provider-aws

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  Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.

  

I have a few EKS clusters that are running cluster-autoscaler, and I'd like to replace it with Karpenter. When reading through the documentation this stood out to me:

• autoscaler

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  Autoscaling components for Kubernetes

  

I have a few EKS clusters that are running cluster-autoscaler, and I'd like to replace it with Karpenter. When reading through the documentation this stood out to me:

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• terraform-aws-eks-blueprints

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  Configure and deploy complete EKS clusters.

  

The popular pattern for Karpenter is to run the Karpenter pods on EKS Fargate and then Karpenter provisions EC2 instances from there https://github.com/aws-ia/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints/tree/main/examples/karpenter

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