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Kubelet creates and manages node leases
This extends the Kubelet to create and periodically update leases in a
new kube-node-lease namespace. Based on [KEP-0009](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/keps/sig-node/0009-node-heartbeat.md),
these leases can be used as a node health signal, and will allow us to
reduce the load caused by over-frequent node status reporting.
- add NodeLease feature gate
- add kube-node-lease system namespace for node leases
- add Kubelet option for lease duration
- add Kubelet-internal lease controller to create and update lease
- add e2e test for NodeLease feature
I would like to determine a standard policy for lease renewal frequency, based on the configured lease duration, so that we don't need to expose frequency as an additional knob. The renew interval is currently calculated as 1/3 of the lease duration.
```release-note
kubelet: Users can now enable the alpha NodeLease feature gate to have the Kubelet create and periodically renew a Lease in the kube-node-lease namespace. The lease duration defaults to 40s, and can be configured via the kubelet.config.k8s.io/v1beta1.KubeletConfiguration's NodeLeaseDurationSeconds field.
```
/cc @wojtek-t @liggitt
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