The apiserver owns and manages the kubernetes.default service.
It has 3 different options to reconcile the endpoints that belong to
that service:
- None: endpoints are handled by an external party.
- MasterCount: legacy, it reconciles based on the endpoints generated
and a flag specifying the number of master on the cluster.
- Lease: default since 1.11, each apiserver writes a lease in etcd
and renews periodically, the endpoints are generated based on the
existing leases.
It seems that when the default was set for the lease reconciler, the
controlplane code wasn't updated and kept using the master count
reconciler.
This also starts the deprecation of the master count reconciler in
favor of the lease reconciler.
In various places log messages where emitted as part of validation or even
before it (for example, cli.PrintFlags). Those log messages did not use the
final logging configuration, for example text output instead of JSON or not the
final verbosity. The last point became more obvious after moving the setup of
verbosity into logs.Options.Apply because PrintFlags never printed anything
anymore.
In order to force applications to deal with logging as soon as possible, the
Options.Validate and Options.Apply methods are now private. Applications should
use the new Options.ValidateAndApply directly after parsing.
It wasn't documented that InitLogs already uses the log flush frequency, so
some commands have called it before parsing (for example, kubectl in the
original code for logs.go). The flag never had an effect in such commands.
Fixing this turned into a major refactoring of how commands set up flags and
run their Cobra command:
- component-base/logs: implicitely registering flags during package init is an
anti-pattern that makes it impossible to use the package in commands which
want full control over their command line. Logging flags must be added
explicitly now, something that the new cli.Run does automatically.
- component-base/logs: AddFlags would have crashed in kubectl-convert if it
had been called because it relied on the global pflag.CommandLine. This
has been fixed and kubectl-convert now has the same --log-flush-frequency
flag as other commands.
- component-base/logs/testinit: an exception are tests where flag.CommandLine has
to be used. This new package can be imported to add flags to that
once per test program.
- Normalization of the klog command line flags was inconsistent. Some commands
unintentionally didn't normalize to the recommended format with hyphens. This
gets fixed for sample programs, but not for production programs because
it would be a breaking change.
This refactoring has the following user-visible effects:
- The validation error for `go run ./cmd/kube-apiserver --logging-format=json
--add-dir-header` now references `add-dir-header` instead of `add_dir_header`.
- `staging/src/k8s.io/cloud-provider/sample` uses flags with hyphen instead of
underscore.
- `--log-flush-frequency` is not listed anymore in the --logging-format flag's
`non-default formats don't honor these flags` usage text because it will also
work for non-default formats once it is needed.
- `cmd/kubelet`: the description of `--logging-format` uses hyphens instead of
underscores for the flags, which now matches what the command is using.
- `staging/src/k8s.io/component-base/logs/example/cmd`: added logging flags.
- `apiextensions-apiserver` no longer prints a useless stack trace for `main`
when command line parsing raises an error.
