Hardcoded known stable version will be returned if user
didn't request specific version and kubeadm for some reason
not able to fetch latest stable information from release servers.
For now, fallback version is v1.4.6
Now, defaults can be pointing to "stable" and users will always get
latest available stable build of Kubernetes via kubeadm.
There is no need anymore to hardcode version string inside kubeadm
binary.
It is also possible to use labels like "latest" or point to exact
branch: "stable-1.4"
Automatic merge from submit-queue
Avoid double decoding all client responses
Fixes#35982
The linked issue uncovered that we were always double decoding the response in restclient for get, list, update, create, and patch. That's fairly expensive, most especially for list. This PR refines the behavior of the rest client to avoid double decoding, and does so while minimizing the changes to rest client consumers.
restclient must be able to deal with multiple types of servers. Alter the behavior of restclient.Result#Raw() to not process the body on error, but instead to return the generic error (which still matches the error checking cases in api/error like IsBadRequest). If the caller uses
.Error(), .Into(), or .Get(), try decoding the body as a Status.
For older servers, continue to default apiVersion "v1" when calling restclient.Result#Error(). This was only for 1.1 servers and the extensions group, which we have since fixed.
This removes a double decode of very large objects (like LIST) - we were trying to DecodeInto status, but that ends up decoding the entire result and then throwing it away. This makes the decode behavior specific to the type of action the user wants.
```release-note
The error handling behavior of `pkg/client/restclient.Result` has changed. Calls to `Result.Raw()` will no longer parse the body, although they will still return errors that react to `pkg/api/errors.Is*()` as in previous releases. Callers of `Get()` and `Into()` will continue to receive errors that are parsed from the body if the kind and apiVersion of the body match the `Status` object.
This more closely aligns rest client as a generic RESTful client, while preserving the special Kube API extended error handling for the `Get` and `Into` methods (which most Kube clients use).
```
Previously, GetEnvParams (now called SetEnvParams) had no way of being altered unless
it was through enviroment variables. These changes allow for a global
EnvParam to be set and also altered while still initally getting their value from
set enviroment variables. This change is especially helpful for testing
(see kubeadm/app/util/kubeconfig_test.go).
