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Explicit kubelet flags
The Kubelet was using the global flag set.
Libraries also often use the global flag set.
There are flags in the Kubelet's usage statement for which the Kubelet does not control registration.
This is bad, we must have full control of our command-line API.
This PR puts a stop to it.
I worked through the Kubelet's usage printout and tracked down the flags.
In the below list, flags with checkboxes are one of:
- explicitly **registered** in this PR
- thought about and outright **rejected**
- thought about and **registered-deprecated** for legacy reasons
For the others we need to figure out whether they should be **registered** or **rejected** or **registered-deprecated**.
### cadvisor:
grep commands, for reference:
```
# flag definitions in cadvisor
git grep -E "\"application_metrics_count_limit\"|\"boot_id_file\"|\"container_hints\"|\"containerd\"|\"docker\"|\"docker_env_metadata_whitelist\"|\"docker_only\"|\"docker_root\"|\"docker-tls\"|\"docker-tls-ca\"|\"docker-tls-cert\"|\"docker-tls-key\"|\"enable_load_reader\"|\"event_storage_age_limit\"|\"event_storage_event_limit\"|\"global_housekeeping_interval\"|\"housekeeping_interval\"|\"log_cadvisor_usage\"|\"machine_id_file\"|\"storage_driver_buffer_duration\"|\"storage_driver_db\"|\"storage_driver_host\"|\"storage_driver_password\"|\"storage_driver_secure\"|\"storage_driver_table\"|\"storage_driver_user\"" -- vendor/github.com/google/cadvisor
# flag invocations
git grep -E "\--application_metrics_count_limit|--boot_id_file|--container_hints|--containerd|--docker|--docker_env_metadata_whitelist|--docker_only|--docker_root|--docker_tls|--docker_tls_ca|--docker_tls_cert|--docker_tls_key|--enable_load_reader|--event_storage_age_limit|--event_storage_event_limit|--global_housekeeping_interval|--housekeeping_interval|--log_cadvisor_usage|--machine_id_file|--storage_driver_buffer_duration|--storage_driver_db|--storage_driver_host|--storage_driver_password|--storage_driver_secure|--storage_driver_table|--storage_driver_user" -- ':(exclude)pkg/generated/bindata.go' ':(exclude)Godeps' ':(exclude)CHANGELOG*' ':(exclude)vendor'
# normalized flag invocations
git grep -E "\--application-metrics-count-limit|--boot-id-file|--container-hints|--containerd|--docker|--docker-env-metadata-whitelist|--docker-only|--docker-root|--docker-tls|--docker-tls-ca|--docker-tls-cert|--docker-tls-key|--enable-load-reader|--event-storage-age-limit|--event-storage-event-limit|--global-housekeeping-interval|--housekeeping-interval|--log-cadvisor-usage|--machine-id-file|--storage-driver-buffer-duration|--storage-driver-db|--storage-driver-host|--storage-driver-password|--storage-driver-secure|--storage-driver-table|--storage-driver-user" -- ':(exclude)pkg/generated/bindata.go' ':(exclude)Godeps' ':(exclude)CHANGELOG*' ':(exclude)vendor'
# flag names
git grep -E "application_metrics_count_limit|boot_id_file|container_hints|containerd|docker|docker_env_metadata_whitelist|docker_only|docker_root|docker_tls|docker_tls_ca|docker_tls_cert|docker_tls_key|enable_load_reader|event_storage_age_limit|event_storage_event_limit|global_housekeeping_interval|housekeeping_interval|log_cadvisor_usage|machine_id_file|storage_driver_buffer_duration|storage_driver_db|storage_driver_host|storage_driver_password|storage_driver_secure|storage_driver_table|storage_driver_user" ':(exclude)pkg/generated/bindata.go' ':(exclude)Godeps' ':(exclude)CHANGELOG*' ':(exclude)vendor'
# normalized flag names
git grep -E "application-metrics-count-limit|boot-id-file|container-hints|containerd|docker|docker-env-metadata-whitelist|docker-only|docker-root|docker-tls|docker-tls-ca|docker-tls-cert|docker-tls-key|enable-load-reader|event-storage-age-limit|event-storage-event-limit|global-housekeeping-interval|housekeeping-interval|log-cadvisor-usage|machine-id-file|storage-driver-buffer-duration|storage-driver-db|storage-driver-host|storage-driver-password|storage-driver-secure|storage-driver-table|storage-driver-user" ':(exclude)pkg/generated/bindata.go' ':(exclude)Godeps' ':(exclude)CHANGELOG*' ':(exclude)vendor'
# normalized and underscore names combined
git grep -E "application_metrics_count_limit|boot_id_file|container_hints|containerd|docker|docker_env_metadata_whitelist|docker_only|docker_root|docker_tls|docker_tls_ca|docker_tls_cert|docker_tls_key|enable_load_reader|event_storage_age_limit|event_storage_event_limit|global_housekeeping_interval|housekeeping_interval|log_cadvisor_usage|machine_id_file|storage_driver_buffer_duration|storage_driver_db|storage_driver_host|storage_driver_password|storage_driver_secure|storage_driver_table|storage_driver_user|application-metrics-count-limit|boot-id-file|container-hints|containerd|docker-env-metadata-whitelist|docker-only|docker-root|docker-tls|docker-tls-ca|docker-tls-cert|docker-tls-key|enable-load-reader|event-storage-age-limit|event-storage-event-limit|global-housekeeping-interval|housekeeping-interval|log-cadvisor-usage|machine-id-file|storage-driver-buffer-duration|storage-driver-db|storage-driver-host|storage-driver-password|storage-driver-secure|storage-driver-table|storage-driver-user" ':(exclude)pkg/generated/bindata.go' ':(exclude)Godeps' ':(exclude)CHANGELOG*' ':(exclude)vendor'
```
- [x] --docker-root (**registered** - this is used in `cluster/saltbase/salt/kubelet/default`)
- [x] --housekeeping-interval (**registered** - e2e node tests rely on this (`test/e2e_node/resource_collector.go`))
- [x] --application-metrics-count-limit (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --boot-id-file (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --container-hints (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --containerd (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-env-metadata-whitelist (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-only (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-tls (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-tls-ca (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-tls-cert (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --docker-tls-key (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --enable-load-reader (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --event-storage-age-limit (**registered-deprecated** - the Kubelet overrides the default via the global flagset (`pkg/kubelet/cadvisor/cadvisor_linux.go`), but nothing else in core repo provides)
- [x] --event-storage-event-limit (**registered-deprecated** - the Kubelet overrides the default via the global flagset (`pkg/kubelet/cadvisor/cadvisor_linux.go`), but nothing else in core repo provides)
- [x] --global-housekeeping-interval (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --log-cadvisor-usage (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --machine-id-file (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-user (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-password (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-host (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-db (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-table (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-secure (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
- [x] --storage-driver-buffer-duration (**registered-deprecated** - temporarily register for legacy)
### pkg/apiserver/util/logs:
- [x] --log-flush-frequency (**registered** - like the glog flags, this is probably useful)
### pkg/credentialprovider/azure/azure_credentials.go:
- [x] --azure-container-registry-config (**registered** - This isn't quite as straightforward as --google-json-key, because the file it points to isn't static. For now we will just register, and we will deprecate it when there is an alternative. See below comments.)
### pkg/credentialprovider/gcp/jwt.go:
- [x] --google-json-key (**registered-deprecated** - This is really old legacy stuff to allow kubelets to authenticate with gcr (see:
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