kubeadm's current implementation of component config support is "kind" centric.
This has its downsides. Namely:
- Kind names and numbers can change between config versions.
Newer kinds can be ignored. Therefore, detection of a version change is
considerably harder.
- A component config can have only one kind that is managed by kubeadm.
Thus a more appropriate way to identify component configs is required.
Probably the best solution identified so far is a config group.
A group name is unlikely to change between versions, while the kind names and
structure can.
Tracking component configs by group name allows us to:
- Spot more easily config version changes and manage alternate versions.
- Support more than one kind in a config group/version.
- Abstract component configs by hiding their exact structure.
Hence, this change rips off the old kind based support for component configs
and replaces it with a group name based one. This also has the following
extra benefits:
- More tests were added.
- kubeadm now errors out if an unsupported version of a known component group
is used.
Signed-off-by: Rostislav M. Georgiev <rostislavg@vmware.com>
We have an existing helper function for this: runtime.SerializerInfoForMediaType()
This is common prep-work for encoding runtime.Objects into JSON/YAML for transmission over the wire or writing to ComponentConfigs.
