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Add unit testcases for ensureExternalLoadBalancer to make sure it doesn't panic when errors raised.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Add unit testcases for ensureExternalLoadBalancer to make sure it doesn't panic when errors raised. Increase code coverage from 76.5% to 81.5%.
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\assign @MrHohn
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Performance tests and fix for IPAM controller.
Tests the four modes of allocations. Can be run using
./test-performance.sh under tests/integration/ipamperf
directory. See ./test-performance.sh -h for supported flags.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
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Please see the implementation notes comment block in cloud.go for core details of how
the mocking works. README.md has details on how the tests can be run on the
command line.
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Performance test framework and basic tests for the IPAM controller, to simulate behavior
of the four supported modes under lightly loaded and loaded conditions, where load is
defined as the number of operations to perform as against the configured kubernetes
API server QPS.
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Unit tests for external load balancer
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Unit test for external load balancer. Increase the code coverage of gce_loadbalancer_external.go from 61.6% to 76.5%.
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Tests the four modes of allocations. Can be run using
./test-performance.sh under tests/integration/ipamperf
directory. See ./test-performance.sh -h for supported flags.
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GCE: support Cloud TPU API in cloud provider
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This PR adds the support for Cloud TPU API in GCE cloud provider.
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/assign @vishh
/assign @cheftako
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Feature gate for regional PDs
**What this PR does / why we need it**: Adding beta feature gate around regional PD support.
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged)*: Partially addresses #59988
**Special notes for your reviewer**: This feature has already been in alpha for two releases, but at the time it was not gated with a Kubernetes feature gate. Instead it was controlled by a GCE-specific alpha gate. However, there are additional changes with GCE PD StorageClass parameters that we'd like to gate as well, and this is out of scope of GCE alpha gates.
/cc @saad-ali @lavalamp
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Update bazelbuild/rules_go, kubernetes/repo-infra, and gazelle dependencies
**What this PR does / why we need it**: updates our bazelbuild/rules_go dependency in order to bump everything to go1.9.4. I'm separating this effort into two separate PRs, since updating rules_go requires a large cleanup, removing an attribute from most build rules.
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GCE: Fix SelfLink of cloudprovider mocks
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Allows the user to pass in a ProjectRouter to the mocked services
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/assign bowei
/cc agau4779
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add node shutdown taint
**What this PR does / why we need it**: we need node stopped taint in order to detach volumes immediately without waiting timeout. More info in issue ticket #58635
**Which issue(s) this PR fixes**
Fixes#58635
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Try longer to fetch initial token.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Step towards fixing #56293
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/kind bug
/priority critial-urgent
@kubernetes/sig-scalability-bugs
/cc @shyamjvs please add to v1.9
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