From f2ea4fe3ee9375c122b63ec750e2026d94704205 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Emrich <martin.emrich@empolis.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:11:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] do not install metrics-server as core addon

---
 pkg/apis/eksctl.io/v1alpha5/known_addons.go | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/apis/eksctl.io/v1alpha5/known_addons.go b/pkg/apis/eksctl.io/v1alpha5/known_addons.go
index 6b67e47d24..f9a3c7e692 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/eksctl.io/v1alpha5/known_addons.go
+++ b/pkg/apis/eksctl.io/v1alpha5/known_addons.go
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ var KnownAddons = map[string]struct {
 	AWSEBSCSIDriverAddon: {},
 	AWSEFSCSIDriverAddon: {},
 	MetricsServerAddon: {
-		IsDefault:             true,
 		CreateBeforeNodeGroup: false, // Create after nodegroup so we get scheduled on Fargate profiles.
 		IsDefaultAutoMode:     true,
 		ExcludedRegions: []string{