This method has been unused by k8s for some time, and yet is the last
piece of the cloud provider API that encourages provider names to be
human-friendly strings (this method applies a regex to instance names).
Actually removing this deprecated method is part of a long effort to
migrate from instance names to instance IDs in at least the OpenStack
provider plugin.
We had another bug where we confused the hostname with the NodeName.
To avoid this happening again, and to make the code more
self-documenting, we use types.NodeName (a typedef alias for string)
whenever we are referring to the Node.Name.
A tedious but mechanical commit therefore, to change all uses of the
node name to use types.NodeName
Also clean up some of the (many) places where the NodeName is referred
to as a hostname (not true on AWS), or an instanceID (not true on GCE),
etc.
