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The main advantage is that waiting on channels creates a causal relationship
between goroutines which is visible to synctest. When a controller in a
synctest bubble does a WaitFor in a test's background goroutine for the
controller, the test can use synctest.Wait to wait for completion of cache
sync, without requiring any test specific "has controller synced" API. Without
this, the test had to poll or otherwise wait for the controller.
The polling in WaitForCacheSync moved the virtual clock forward by a random
amount, depending on how often it had to check in wait.Poll. Now tests can be
written such that all events during a test happen at a predictable time. This
will be demonstrated in a separate commit for the
pkg/controller/devicetainteviction unit test.
The benefit for normal production is immediate continuation when the last
informer is synced (not really a problem, but still...) and more important,
nicer logging thanks to the names associated with the thing that is being
waited for. The caller decides whether logging is enabled or disabled and
describes what is being waited for (typically informer caches, but maybe also
event handlers or even something else entirely as long as it implements the
DoneChecker interface).
Before:
Waiting for caches to sync
Caches are synced
After:
Waiting for="cache and event handler sync"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.Pod"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.ResourceClaim"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.ResourceSlice"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.DeviceClass"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1alpha3.DeviceTaintRule"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.ResourceClaim + event handler k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller/devicetainteviction.(*Controller).Run"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.Pod + event handler k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller/devicetainteviction.(*Controller).Run"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1alpha3.DeviceTaintRule + event handler k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller/devicetainteviction.(*Controller).Run"
Done waiting for="cache and event handler sync" instance="SharedIndexInformer *v1.ResourceSlice + event handler k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller/devicetainteviction.(*Controller).Run"
The "SharedIndexInformer *v1.Pod" is also how this appears in metrics.
Kubernetes (K8s)
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications.
Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience at Google running production workloads at scale using a system called Borg, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.
Kubernetes is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If your company wants to help shape the evolution of technologies that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled, and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF. For details about who's involved and how Kubernetes plays a role, read the CNCF announcement.
To start using K8s
See our documentation on kubernetes.io.
Take a free course on Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes.
To use Kubernetes code as a library in other applications, see the list of published components.
Use of the k8s.io/kubernetes module or k8s.io/kubernetes/... packages as libraries is not supported.
To start developing K8s
The community repository hosts all information about building Kubernetes from source, how to contribute code and documentation, who to contact about what, etc.
If you want to build Kubernetes right away there are two options:
You have a working Go environment.
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
cd kubernetes
make
You have a working Docker environment.
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
cd kubernetes
make quick-release
For the full story, head over to the developer's documentation.
Support
If you need support, start with the troubleshooting guide, and work your way through the process that we've outlined.
That said, if you have questions, reach out to us one way or another.
Community Meetings
The Calendar has the list of all the meetings in the Kubernetes community in a single location.
Adopters
The User Case Studies website has real-world use cases of organizations across industries that are deploying/migrating to Kubernetes.
Governance
Kubernetes project is governed by a framework of principles, values, policies and processes to help our community and constituents towards our shared goals.
The Kubernetes Community is the launching point for learning about how we organize ourselves.
The Kubernetes Steering community repo is used by the Kubernetes Steering Committee, which oversees governance of the Kubernetes project.
Roadmap
The Kubernetes Enhancements repo provides information about Kubernetes releases, as well as feature tracking and backlogs.