The metadata client uses protobuf and returns only a subset of object
data (the metadata) which allows operations that act only on objects
generically to work much faster. Use the metadata client in the
namespace controller to reduce the amount of work the namespace controller
has to do in large namespaces.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62913 switched from using a client pool, where each groupVersionResource got its own rest client, to a single client.
This increases the QPS to account for increased requests using a single rest client rate limiter.
Automatic merge from submit-queue
replace global registry in apimachinery with global registry in k8s.io/kubernetes
We'd like to remove all globals, but our immediate problem is that a shared registry between k8s.io/kubernetes and k8s.io/client-go doesn't work. Since client-go makes a copy, we can actually keep a global registry with other globals in pkg/api for now.
@kubernetes/sig-api-machinery-misc @lavalamp @smarterclayton @sttts
The GC needs to build clients based only on Resource or Kind. Hoist the
restmapper out of the controller and the clientpool, support a new
ClientForGroupVersionKind and ClientForGroupVersionResource, and use the
appropriate one in both places.
