Activate gce minion list.

cluster/saltbase/pillar/top.sls

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 base:
   '*':
     - mine
+    - common

cluster/saltbase/salt/apiserver/default

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {%- set ips = salt['mine.get']('roles:kubernetes-master', 'network.ip_addrs', 'grain').values() %}
-DAEMON_ARGS="$DAEMON_ARGS -etcd_servers=http://{{ ips[0][0] }}:4001"
+DAEMON_ARGS="$DAEMON_ARGS -etcd_servers=http://{{ ips[0][0] }}:4001 -minion_regexp '{{ pillar['instance_prefix'] }}.*'"
 
 MACHINES="{{ ','.join(salt['mine.get']('roles:kubernetes-pool', 'network.ip_addrs', expr_form='grain').keys()) }}"
 DAEMON_ARGS="$DAEMON_ARGS --machines $MACHINES"

cluster/saltbase/salt/apiserver/initd

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
 DESC="The Kubernetes API server"
 NAME=apiserver
 DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/apiserver
-DAEMON_ARGS="-cloud_provider gce "
+DAEMON_ARGS="-cloud_provider gce" 
 DAEMON_LOG_FILE=/var/log/$NAME.log
 PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

pkg/cloudprovider/cloud.go

@@ -38,6 +38,6 @@ type TCPLoadBalancer interface {
 
 type Instances interface {
 	IPAddress(name string) (net.IP, error)
-	// Lists instances that match 'filter' which is a regular expression which must match the entire instance name
+	// Lists instances that match 'filter' which is a regular expression which must match the entire instance name (fqdn)
 	List(filter string) ([]string, error)
 }

pkg/cloudprovider/gce.go

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
+	"os/exec"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -181,7 +182,31 @@ func (gce *GCECloud) IPAddress(instance string) (net.IP, error) {
 	return ip, nil
 }
 
+// This is hacky, compute the delta between hostame and hostname -f
+func fqdnSuffix() (string, error) {
+	fullHostname, err := exec.Command("hostname", "-f").Output()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	hostname, err := exec.Command("hostname").Output()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return strings.TrimSpace(string(fullHostname)[len(string(hostname)):]), nil
+}
+
 func (gce *GCECloud) List(filter string) ([]string, error) {
+	// GCE gives names without their fqdn suffix, so get that here for appending.
+	// This is needed because the kubelet looks for its jobs in /registry/hosts/<fqdn>/pods
+	// We should really just replace this convention, with a negotiated naming protocol for kubelet's
+	// to register with the master.
+	suffix, err := fqdnSuffix()
+	if err != nil {
+		return []string{}, err
+	}
+	if len(suffix) > 0 {
+		suffix = "." + suffix
+	}
 	listCall := gce.service.Instances.List(gce.projectID, gce.zone)
 	if len(filter) > 0 {
 		listCall = listCall.Filter("name eq " + filter)
@@ -192,7 +217,7 @@ func (gce *GCECloud) List(filter string) ([]string, error) {
 	}
 	var instances []string
 	for _, instance := range res.Items {
-		instances = append(instances, instance.Name)
+		instances = append(instances, instance.Name+suffix)
 	}
 	return instances, nil
 }

pkg/master/pod_cache.go

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func (p *PodCache) updateContainerInfo(host, id string) error {
 func (p *PodCache) UpdateAllContainers() {
 	pods, err := p.pods.ListPods(labels.Everything())
 	if err != nil {
-		glog.Errorf("Error synchronizing container: %#v", err)
+		glog.Errorf("Error synchronizing container list: %#v", err)
 		return
 	}
 	for _, pod := range pods {

release/release.sh

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ set -e
 
 source $(dirname $0)/config.sh
 
+source $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE})/../cluster/${KUBE_CONFIG_FILE-"config-default.sh"}
+
 cd $(dirname $0)/..
 
 # First build the release tar.  This gets copied on to the master and installed
@@ -40,6 +42,11 @@ mkdir -p $MASTER_RELEASE_DIR/third_party/go
 echo "Building release tree"
 cp release/master-release-install.sh $MASTER_RELEASE_DIR/src/scripts/master-release-install.sh
 cp -r cluster/saltbase $MASTER_RELEASE_DIR/src/saltbase
+
+cat << EOF > $MASTER_RELEASE_DIR/src/saltbase/pillar/common.sls
+instance_prefix: $INSTANCE_PREFIX-minion
+EOF
+
 cp -r third_party/src $MASTER_RELEASE_DIR/third_party/go/src
 
 function find_go_files() {