While currently those objects only get published by the kubelet for node-local
resources, this could change once we also support network-attached
resources. Dropping the "Node" prefix enables such a future extension.
The NodeName in ResourceSlice and StructuredResourceHandle then becomes
optional. The kubelet still needs to provide one and it must match its own node
name, otherwise it doesn't have permission to access ResourceSlice objects.
The information is received from the DRA driver plugin through a new gRPC
streaming interface. This is backwards compatible with old DRA driver kubelet
plugins, their gRPC server will return "not implemented" and that can be
handled by kubelet. Therefore no API break is needed.
However, DRA drivers need to be updated because the Go API changed. They can
return
status.New(codes.Unimplemented, "no node resource support").Err()
if they don't support the new ListAndWatchResources method and
structured parameters.
The controller in kubelet then synchronizes this information from the driver
with NodeResourceSlice objects, creating, updating and deleting them as needed.
Dependencies need to be updated to use
github.com/container-orchestrated-devices/container-device-interface.
It's not decided yet whether we will implement Topology support
for DRA or not. Not having any toppology-related code
will help to avoid wrong impression that DRA is used as a hint
provider for the Topology Manager.
