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Override recycler pod in GCE
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Override the default nfs and hostpath recycler pod with the busybox image from gcr.io/google-containers. It does this by:
* writing out the new recycler pod spec to /home/kubernetes
* specifying recycler pod arguments to kube-controller-manager,
* adding a hostpath volume to the recycler pod spec in the kube-controller-manager manfiest
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Fixes #
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Fix configuration of Metadata Agent daemon set
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Fixes small errors in Stackdriver Metadata Agent configuration: port number and default version.
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Fix port number and default Stackdriver Metadata Agent in daemon set configuration.
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Configure metadata concealment iptables rules in node startup.
**What this PR does / why we need it**: Configure iptables rule for metadata concealment at startup so the pod doesn't have to, to reduce memory consumption.
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Fixes #
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Add checking HPA_USE_REST_CLIENTS
Add checking HPA_USE_REST_CLIENTS in addition to ENABLE_METRICS_SERVER when disabling REST clients use for HPA.
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NONE
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Add CoreDNS as an optional addon in kube-up
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This PR adds the option of installing CoreDNS as an addon instead of kube-dns in kube-up.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Fixes#56439
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kube-up: Add optional addon CoreDNS.
Install CoreDNS instead of kube-dns by setting CLUSTER_DNS_CORE_DNS value to 'true'.
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Dump last curl output if cluster fails to come up.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This is a step toward solving #55686
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NONE
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This admission plugin puts finalizer to every created PVC. The finalizer is
removed by PVCProtectionController when the PVC is not referenced by any
pods and thus the PVC can be deleted.
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Add deployment for Stackdriver Metadata Agent with version and resource requirement controlled by env variable
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Introduces Stackdriver Metadata Agent - a daemon set providing metadata for kubernetes objects connected to the same node.
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Add environment variable to enable support for new Stackdriver resource model
To be merged after #56211
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This PR adds env variable to control Stackdriver sink in Heapster - whether it export metrics for new resource model or old resource model.
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Fix setting resources in fluentd-gcp plugin
Currently if some of the variables are not set, scripts prints error, which is not critical, since the function is executed in a separate process, but it leads to the wrong resulting values
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NONE
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/cc @piosz @x13n
/assign @roberthbailey @mikedanese
Could you please approve?
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Be less agressive and more patient when creating large master.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Workaround for #55777
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NONE
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Add options for mounting SCSI or NVMe local SSD though Block or Filesystem and do all of that with UUID
Fixes: #51431
Fixed version of: #53466
Mount SCSI local SSD by UUID in /mnt/disks/by-uuid/, also allows for users to request and mount NVMe disks. Both types of disks will be accessible either through block or file-system.
I have confirmed that it is no longer crashing when nodes are initialized on GKE.
