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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Script to fetch latest openapi spec from federation-apiserver
+# Puts the updated spec at federation/apis/openapi-spec/
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+OPENAPI_ROOT_DIR="${KUBE_ROOT}/federation/apis/openapi-spec"
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/init.sh"
+
+kube::golang::setup_env
+
+make -C "${KUBE_ROOT}" WHAT="cmd/hyperkube"
+
+function cleanup()
+{
+    [[ -n "${APISERVER_PID-}" ]] && kill ${APISERVER_PID} 1>&2 2>/dev/null
+
+    kube::etcd::cleanup
+
+    kube::log::status "Clean up complete"
+}
+
+trap cleanup EXIT SIGINT
+
+kube::golang::setup_env
+
+ETCD_HOST=${ETCD_HOST:-127.0.0.1}
+ETCD_PORT=${ETCD_PORT:-2379}
+API_PORT=${API_PORT:-8050}
+API_HOST=${API_HOST:-127.0.0.1}
+
+kube::etcd::start
+
+# Start federation-apiserver
+kube::log::status "Starting federation-apiserver"
+"${KUBE_OUTPUT_HOSTBIN}/hyperkube" federation-apiserver \
+  --insecure-bind-address="${API_HOST}" \
+  --bind-address="${API_HOST}" \
+  --insecure-port="${API_PORT}" \
+  --etcd-servers="http://${ETCD_HOST}:${ETCD_PORT}" \
+  --advertise-address="10.10.10.10" \
+  --service-cluster-ip-range="10.0.0.0/24" >/tmp/openapi-federation-api-server.log 2>&1 &
+APISERVER_PID=$!
+kube::util::wait_for_url "${API_HOST}:${API_PORT}/" "apiserver: "
+
+OPENAPI_PATH="${API_HOST}:${API_PORT}/"
+DEFAULT_GROUP_VERSIONS="v1 extensions/v1beta1 federation/v1beta1"
+VERSIONS=${VERSIONS:-$DEFAULT_GROUP_VERSIONS}
+
+kube::log::status "Updating " ${OPENAPI_ROOT_DIR}
+
+OPENAPI_PATH="${OPENAPI_PATH}" OPENAPI_ROOT_DIR="${OPENAPI_ROOT_DIR}" VERSIONS="${VERSIONS}" kube::util::fetch-openapi-spec
+
+kube::log::status "SUCCESS"
+
+# ex: ts=2 sw=2 et filetype=sh