The feature gate gets locked to "true", with the goal to remove it in two
releases.
All code now can assume that the feature is enabled. Tests for "feature
disabled" are no longer needed and get removed.
Some code wasn't using the new helper functions yet. That gets changed while
touching those lines.
The implementation consists of
- identifying all places where VolumeSource.PersistentVolumeClaim has
a special meaning and then ensuring that the same code path is taken
for an ephemeral volume, with the ownership check
- adding a controller that produces the PVCs for each embedded
VolumeSource.EphemeralVolume
- relaxing the PVC protection controller such that it removes
the finalizer already before the pod is deleted (only
if the GenericEphemeralVolume feature is enabled): this is
needed to break a cycle where foreground deletion of the pod
blocks on removing the PVC, which waits for deletion of the pod
The controller was derived from the endpointslices controller.
