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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 55112, 56029, 55740, 56095, 55845). If you want to cherry-pick this change to another branch, please follow the instructions <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/cherry-picks.md">here</a>. Updating vsphere cloud provider to support k8s cluster spread across multiple vCenters **What this PR does / why we need it**: vSphere cloud provider in Kubernetes 1.8 was designed to work only if all the nodes of the cluster are in one single datacenter folder. This is a hard restriction that makes the cluster not span across different folders/datacenter/vCenters. Users have use-cases to span the cluster across datacenters/vCenters. **Which issue(s) this PR fixes** Fixes # https://github.com/vmware/kubernetes/issues/255 **Special notes for your reviewer**: This is a change purely in vsphere cloud provider and no changes in kubernetes core are needed. **Release note**: ```release-note With this change - User should be able to create k8s cluster which spans across multiple ESXi clusters, datacenters or even vCenters. - vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name. That means, now VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name. - VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter. The only requirement is the shared storage. VCP needs shared storage on all Node VMs. ``` Internally tested and reviewed the code. @tthole, @shaominchen, @abrarshivani
Deprecation Notice: This directory has entered maintenance mode and will not be accepting new providers. Cloud Providers in this directory will continue to be actively developed or maintained and supported at their current level of support as a longer-term solution evolves.
Overview:
The mechanism for supporting cloud providers is currently in transition: the original method of implementing cloud provider-specific functionality within the main kubernetes tree (here) is no longer advised; however, the proposed solution is still in development.
Guidance for potential cloud providers:
- Support for cloud providers is currently in a state of flux. Background information on motivation and the proposal for improving is in the github proposal.
- In support of this plan, a new cloud-controller-manager binary was added in 1.6. This was the first of several steps (see the proposal for more information).
- Attempts to contribute new cloud providers or (to a lesser extent) persistent volumes to the core repo will likely meet with some pushback from reviewers/approvers.
- It is understood that this is an unfortunate situation in which 'the old way is no longer supported but the new way is not ready yet', but the initial path is unsustainable, and contributors are encouraged to participate in the implementation of the proposed long-term solution, as there is risk that PRs for new cloud providers here will not be approved.
- Though the fully productized support envisioned in the proposal is still 2 - 3 releases out, the foundational work is underway, and a motivated cloud provider could accomplish the work in a forward-looking way. Contributors are encouraged to assist with the implementation of the design outlined in the proposal.
Some additional context on status / direction:
- 1.6 added a new cloud-controller-manager binary that may be used for testing the new out-of-core cloudprovider flow.
- Setting cloud-provider=external allows for creation of a separate controller-manager binary
- 1.7 adds extensible admission control, further enabling topology customization.