Drop k8s 1.27 metal and VMWare variants

This removes the metal and VMware 1.27 variants. This version of
Kubernetes goes end-of-life on July 24 and these variants are no longer
supported.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Inglis <giinglis@amazon.com>

Cargo.toml

@@ -26,11 +26,9 @@ members = [
     "variants/aws-k8s-1.29-nvidia",
     "variants/aws-k8s-1.30-nvidia",
     "variants/metal-dev",
-    "variants/metal-k8s-1.27",
     "variants/metal-k8s-1.28",
     "variants/metal-k8s-1.29",
     "variants/vmware-dev",
-    "variants/vmware-k8s-1.27",
     "variants/vmware-k8s-1.28",
     "variants/vmware-k8s-1.29",
     "variants/vmware-k8s-1.30",

README.md

@@ -87,21 +87,19 @@ The following variants support ECS:
 
 We also have variants that are designed to be Kubernetes worker nodes in VMware:
 
-* `vmware-k8s-1.27`
 * `vmware-k8s-1.28`
 * `vmware-k8s-1.29`
 * `vmware-k8s-1.30`
 
 The following variants are designed to be Kubernetes worker nodes on bare metal:
 
-* `metal-k8s-1.27`
 * `metal-k8s-1.28`
 * `metal-k8s-1.29`
 
 The following variants are no longer supported:
 
 * All Kubernetes variants using Kubernetes 1.22 and earlier
-* Bare metal and VMware variants using Kubernetes 1.26 and earlier
+* Bare metal and VMware variants using Kubernetes 1.27 and earlier
 
 We recommend users replace nodes running these variants with the [latest variant compatible with their cluster](variants/).
 

variants/README.md

@@ -188,13 +188,6 @@ User data will be read from IMDS.
 The [vmware-dev](vmware-dev/Cargo.toml) variant has useful packages for local development of the OS, and is intended to run as a VMware guest.
 It includes tools for troubleshooting as well as Docker for running containers.
 
-## vmware-k8s-1.27: VMware Kubernetes 1.27 node
-
-The [vmware-k8s-1.27](vmware-k8s-1.27/Cargo.toml) variant includes the packages needed to run a Kubernetes worker node as a VMware guest.
-It supports self-hosted clusters.
-
-This variant is compatible with Kubernetes 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, and 1.30 clusters.
-
 ## vmware-k8s-1.28: VMware Kubernetes 1.28 node
 
 The [vmware-k8s-1.28](vmware-k8s-1.28/Cargo.toml) variant includes the packages needed to run a Kubernetes worker node as a VMware guest.
@@ -221,13 +214,6 @@ This variant is compatible with Kubernetes 1.30, 1.31, 1.32, and 1.33 clusters.
 The [metal-dev](metal-dev/Cargo.toml) variant has useful packages for local development of the OS and is intended to run bare metal.
 It includes tools for troubleshooting as well as Docker for running containers.
 
-### metal-k8s-1.27: Metal Kubernetes 1.27 node
-
-The [metal-k8s-1.27](metal-k8s-1.27/Cargo.toml) variant includes the packages needed to run a Kubernetes node on bare metal.
-It supports self-hosted clusters.
-
-This variant is compatible with Kubernetes 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, and 1.30 clusters.
-
 ### metal-k8s-1.28: Metal Kubernetes 1.28 node
 
 The [metal-k8s-1.28](metal-k8s-1.28/Cargo.toml) variant includes the packages needed to run a Kubernetes node on bare metal.
@@ -424,6 +410,20 @@ It supported self-hosted clusters.
 
 This variant was compatible with Kubernetes 1.26, 1.27, 1.28, and 1.29 clusters.
 
+## vmware-k8s-1.27: VMware Kubernetes 1.27 node
+
+The [vmware-k8s-1.27](vmware-k8s-1.27/Cargo.toml) variant included the packages needed to run a Kubernetes worker node as a VMware guest.
+It supported self-hosted clusters.
+
+This variant was compatible with Kubernetes 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, and 1.30 clusters.
+
+### metal-k8s-1.27: Metal Kubernetes 1.27 node
+
+The [metal-k8s-1.27](metal-k8s-1.27/Cargo.toml) variant included the packages needed to run a Kubernetes node on bare metal.
+It supported self-hosted clusters.
+
+This variant was compatible with Kubernetes 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, and 1.30 clusters.
+
 ## Development
 
 Say we want to create `my-variant`, a custom build of Bottlerocket that runs `my-agent`.