Create system:cluster-autoscaler account & role and introduce it to CA start-up script

cluster/addons/rbac/cluster-autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler-rbac.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+kind: ClusterRole
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+metadata:
+  name: cluster-autoscaler
+  labels:
+    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
+rules:
+  # leader election
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["endpoints"]
+    verbs: ["create"]
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["endpoints"]
+    resourceNames: ["cluster-autoscaler"]
+    verbs: ["get", "update", "patch", "delete"]
+  # accessing & modifying cluster state (nodes & pods)
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["nodes"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update", "patch"]
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["pods"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["pods/eviction"]
+    verbs: ["create"]
+  # read-only access to cluster state
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["services", "replicationcontrollers", "persistentvolumes", "persistentvolumeclaims"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["apps", "extensions"]
+    resources: ["daemonsets", "replicasets"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
+    resources: ["statefulsets"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["policy"]
+    resources: ["poddisruptionbudgets"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["storage.k8s.io"]
+    resources: ["storageclasses"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch"]
+  # misc access
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["events"]
+    verbs: ["create", "update", "patch"]
+  - apiGroups: [""]
+    resources: ["configmaps"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch", "delete", "deletecollection"]
+---
+kind: ClusterRoleBinding
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
+metadata:
+  name: cluster-autoscaler
+  labels:
+    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
+subjects:
+  - kind: User
+    name: cluster-autoscaler
+    namespace: kube-system
+roleRef:
+  kind: ClusterRole
+  name: cluster-autoscaler
+  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
+

cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh

@@ -545,6 +545,9 @@ function create-master-auth {
   if [[ -n "${KUBE_SCHEDULER_TOKEN:-}" ]]; then
     append_or_replace_prefixed_line "${known_tokens_csv}" "${KUBE_SCHEDULER_TOKEN},"          "system:kube-scheduler,uid:system:kube-scheduler"
   fi
+  if [[ -n "${KUBE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER_TOKEN:-}" ]]; then
+    append_or_replace_prefixed_line "${known_tokens_csv}" "${KUBE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER_TOKEN}," "cluster-autoscaler,uid:cluster-autoscaler"
+  fi
   if [[ -n "${KUBE_PROXY_TOKEN:-}" ]]; then
     append_or_replace_prefixed_line "${known_tokens_csv}" "${KUBE_PROXY_TOKEN},"              "system:kube-proxy,uid:kube_proxy"
   fi
@@ -1006,6 +1009,30 @@ current-context: kube-scheduler
 EOF
 }
 
+function create-clusterautoscaler-kubeconfig {
+  echo "Creating cluster-autoscaler kubeconfig file"
+  mkdir -p /etc/srv/kubernetes/cluster-autoscaler
+  cat <<EOF >/etc/srv/kubernetes/cluster-autoscaler/kubeconfig
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Config
+users:
+- name: cluster-autoscaler
+  user:
+    token: ${KUBE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER_TOKEN}
+clusters:
+- name: local
+  cluster:
+    insecure-skip-tls-verify: true
+    server: https://localhost:443
+contexts:
+- context:
+    cluster: local
+    user: cluster-autoscaler
+  name: cluster-autoscaler
+current-context: cluster-autoscaler
+EOF
+}
+
 function create-kubescheduler-policy-config {
   echo "Creating kube-scheduler policy config file"
   mkdir -p /etc/srv/kubernetes/kube-scheduler
@@ -1970,12 +1997,15 @@ function start-kube-scheduler {
 function start-cluster-autoscaler {
   if [[ "${ENABLE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER:-}" == "true" ]]; then
     echo "Start kubernetes cluster autoscaler"
+    setup-addon-manifests "addons" "rbac/cluster-autoscaler"
+    create-clusterautoscaler-kubeconfig
     prepare-log-file /var/log/cluster-autoscaler.log
 
     # Remove salt comments and replace variables with values
     local -r src_file="${KUBE_HOME}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/gci-trusty/cluster-autoscaler.manifest"
 
     local params="${AUTOSCALER_MIG_CONFIG} ${CLOUD_CONFIG_OPT} ${AUTOSCALER_EXPANDER_CONFIG:---expander=price}"
+    params+=" --kubeconfig=/etc/srv/kubernetes/cluster-autoscaler/kubeconfig"
     sed -i -e "s@{{params}}@${params}@g" "${src_file}"
     sed -i -e "s@{{cloud_config_mount}}@${CLOUD_CONFIG_MOUNT}@g" "${src_file}"
     sed -i -e "s@{{cloud_config_volume}}@${CLOUD_CONFIG_VOLUME}@g" "${src_file}"
@@ -2570,9 +2600,10 @@ function main() {
     fi
   fi
 
-  # generate the controller manager and scheduler tokens here since they are only used on the master.
+  # generate the controller manager, scheduler and CA tokens here since they are only used on the master.
   KUBE_CONTROLLER_MANAGER_TOKEN=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=128 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 | tr -d "=+/" | dd bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null)
   KUBE_SCHEDULER_TOKEN=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=128 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 | tr -d "=+/" | dd bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null)
+  KUBE_CLUSTER_AUTOSCALER_TOKEN=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=128 count=1 2>/dev/null | base64 | tr -d "=+/" | dd bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null)
 
   setup-os-params
   config-ip-firewall

cluster/gce/manifests/cluster-autoscaler.manifest

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
                 },
                 "command": [
                     "./run.sh",
-                    "--kubernetes=http://127.0.0.1:8080?inClusterConfig=f",
+                    "--kubernetes=https://127.0.0.1:443",
                     "--v=4",
                     "--logtostderr=true",
                     "--write-status-configmap=true",
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@
                         "readOnly": true,
                         "mountPath": "/usr/share/ca-certificates"
                     },
+                    {
+                        "name": "srvkube",
+                        "readOnly": true,
+                        "mountPath": "/etc/srv/kubernetes"
+                    },
                     {
                         "name": "logfile",
                         "mountPath": "/var/log/cluster-autoscaler.log",
@@ -80,6 +85,12 @@
                     "path": "/usr/share/ca-certificates"
                 }
             },
+            {
+                "name": "srvkube",
+                "hostPath": {
+                    "path": "/etc/srv/kubernetes"
+                }
+            },
             {
                 "name": "logfile",
                 "hostPath": {