Upgrading AWS EKS Version on Optic Data Lake

Hi Team,

We are currently running Optic Data lake version 2022.11 on our AWS environment. The EKS version that we are currently on is going to be end of life soon and we would have to upgrade to a later supported version. My question is whether we can just upgrade the EKS version on the Control plane ( to a higher supported version) and leave the worker nodes running with the existing EKS version?

AWS has confirmed, that we can run a two different versions of EKS ( One on the control plane and another version on the worker nodes). Will this have any effect on the micro focus applications or can we safely run the applications without breaking anything?  This way we would not have to upgrade the entire Micro focus applications.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tarun