Expose terminationGracePeriod (#1460)

Author: fiunchinho

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Added
 
 - Add standard tags to IRSA infrastructure.
+- Expose value to configure `terminationGracePeriod` in the karpenter node pools.
 
 ## [5.0.0] - 2025-09-12
 

helm/cluster-aws/ci/test-karpenter-full-values.yaml

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ global:
       rootVolumeSizeGB: 8
       subnetTags:
         - giantswarm.io/else: "something"
+      terminationGracePeriod: 30m
   providerSpecific:
     region: "eu-west-1"
   release:

helm/cluster-aws/templates/_karpenter_machine_pools.tpl

@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ spec:
           {{- end }}
         {{- end }}
         {{- end }}
+        {{- with $value.terminationGracePeriod }}
+        terminationGracePeriod: {{ . }}
+        {{- end }}
 ---
 {{ end }}
 {{ end }}

helm/cluster-aws/values.schema.json

@@ -484,6 +484,16 @@
                                             "$ref": "#/$defs/awsResourceTagValue"
                                         }
                                     }
+                                },
+                                "terminationGracePeriod": {
+                                    "type": "string",
+                                    "title": "Termination Grace Period",
+                                    "description": "The amount of time a Node can be draining before Karpenter forcibly cleans up the node. Pods blocking eviction like PDBs and do-not-disrupt will be respected during draining until the terminationGracePeriod is reached, where those pods will be forcibly deleted.",
+                                    "examples": [
+                                        "48h"
+                                    ],
+                                    "default": "30m",
+                                    "pattern": "^([0-9]+(s|m|h))+$"
                                 }
                             }
                         }