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TaintController
```release-note
This PR adds a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag.
```
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Remove the temporary fix for pre-1.0 mirror pods
The fix was introduced to fix#15960 for pre-1.0 pods. It should be safe to remove
this fix now.
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Forgiveness library changes
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Splited from #34825, contains library changes that are needed to implement forgiveness:
1. ~~make taints-tolerations matching respect timestamps, so that one toleration can just tolerate a taint for only a period of time.~~ As TaintManager is caching taints and observing taint changes, time-based checking is now outside the library (in TaintManager). see #40355.
2. make tolerations respect wildcard key.
3. add/refresh some related functions to wrap taints-tolerations operation.
**Which issue this PR fixes**:
Related issue: #1574
Related PR: #34825, #39469
~~Please note that the first 2 commits in this PR come from #39469 .~~
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
~~Since currently we have `pkg/api/helpers.go` and `pkg/api/v1/helpers.go`, there are some duplicated periods of code laying in these two files.~~
~~Ideally we should move taints-tolerations related functions into a separate package (pkg/util/taints), and make it a unified set of implementations. But I'd just suggest to do it in a follow-up PR after Forgiveness ones done, in case of feature Forgiveness getting blocked to long.~~
**Release note**:
```release-note
make tolerations respect wildcard key
```
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Forgiveness api changes
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Splited from #34825 , contains api changes that are needed to implement forgiveness:
1. update toleration api types to support forgiveness, added a new field forgivenessSeconds to indicate the duration of time it tolerates a taint.
2. update taint api types, added a new field to indicate the time the taint is added.
**Which issue this PR fixes** :
Related issue: #1574
Related PR: #34825
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
```release-note
forgiveness alpha version api definition
```
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Optional configmaps and secrets
Allow configmaps and secrets for environment variables and volume sources to be optional
Implements approved proposal c9f881b7bb
Release note:
```release-note
Volumes and environment variables populated from ConfigMap and Secret objects can now tolerate the named source object or specific keys being missing, by adding `optional: true` to the volume or environment variable source specifications.
```
Move over only the conversions that are needed, create a new scheme that
is private to meta and only accessible via ParameterCodec. Move half of
pkg/util/labels/.readonly to pkg/apis/meta/v1/labels.go
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move pkg/fields to apimachinery
Purely mechanical move of `pkg/fields` to apimachinery.
Discussed with @lavalamp on slack. Moving this an `labels` to apimachinery.
@liggitt any concerns? I think the idea of field selection should become generic and this ends up shared between client and server, so this is a more logical location.
