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Remove outdated autoscaling e2e tests.
Remove outdated autoscaling e2e tests.
/cc @bskiba @MaciekPytel
/sig-autoscaling
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Modify e2e tests to use priorityClass beta client version & switch priorityClass to beta
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
/cc @bsalamat @aveshagarwal @liggitt
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*:
Part of #57471
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
Once #57963 merges, this could go in.
**Release note**:
```release-note
Modify e2e tests to use priorityClass beta version & switch priorityClass feature to beta
```
This will deflake autoscaling e2e tests on gke. When there is already an operation running on the cluster, the node pool deletion will fail. This will in turn make other tests that add extra node pool fail.
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Add e2e test for external metrics with Stackdriver
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Adds e2e tests for external metrics using Stackdriver adapter.
Rename the file to note that these are Stackdriver tests in anticipation of tests running with fake custom metrics apiserver. Refactor the tests to be more structured.
**Release note**:
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NONE
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Rename the file to note that these are Stackdriver tests in anticipation of tests with fake custom metrics apiserver. Refactor the tests to be more structured.
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Add e2e test for custom metrics with Prometheus and Stackdriver
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Add e2e test for custom metrics in a setup with a container exposing metrics in Prometheus format and prometheus-to-sd sidecar container scraping the metrics and writing them to Stackdriver.
Also some test refactoring for adding new tests more easily (plan to add scale down tests and a test with scaling on two metrics).
**Release note**:
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NONE
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Use policy client with explicit version
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** :
Fixes partially #55993
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
/cc @caesarxuchao @sttts
**Release note**:
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NONE
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Use extensions client with explicit version
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Extensions client without explicit version has been deprecated, change them to the one with explicit version.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**:
Fixes partially #55993
**Special notes for your reviewer**:
**Release note**:
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NONE
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Create sig-autoscaling-maintainers alias
Create an alias group for sig-autoscaling.
This will be used by test/e2e/autoscaling/OWNERS.
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NONE
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Maciej Pytel