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Bump external provisioner image to smaller version
The image is roughly half as big so this should improve speed/flakiness maybe
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PD e2e test: Ready node check now uses the most up-to-date node count.
Follow-up to PR #46746
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move labels to components which own the APIs
During the apimachinery split in 1.6, we accidentally moved several label APIs into apimachinery. They don't belong there, since the individual APIs are not general machinery concerns, but instead are the concern of particular components: most commonly the kubelet. This pull moves the labels into their owning components and out of API machinery.
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@derekwaynecarr since most of these are related to the kubelet
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Local storage plugin
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Volume plugin implementation for local persistent volumes. Scheduler predicate will direct already-bound PVCs to the node that the local PV is at. PVC binding still happens independently.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*:
Part of #43640
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Alpha feature: Local volume plugin allows local directories to be created and consumed as a Persistent Volume. These volumes have node affinity and pods will only be scheduled to the node that the volume is at.
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Revert #45101 Mark PersistentVolumes as [Feature:Volumes]
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Reverts #45101
`Feature` tag should only be used when a test/suite has dependencies not met by core CI. That is not the case for NFS backed PV tests.
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Increase pv test ns deletion timeout to the framework's default.
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Namespace deletion occasionally exceeds the test's timeout of 3 minutes. The test framework uses a default timeout of 5 minutes, so just making it match here.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: fixes#44790
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e2e test: test azure disk volume
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
E2E test Azure disk volume
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Just so that we know that we need a cloud provider that
supports volumes to run this test. This is similar to
the change in 63bc42c872.
Ran into this when i was trying to run e2e tests with
local-up-cluster locally and figured out this test will
not work since we don't support local storage persistent
volumes.
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De-Flake Volume E2E: force GCEPD detach to prevent timeout
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Fix flake`[k8s.io] Volumes [Volume] [k8s.io] PD should be mountable [Flaky] 5m38s.
Flake occurs as a result of an automated detach taking longer than 5 minutes, which exceeds the timeout limit of the delete function.
This PR adds explicit detach and wait func calls before the deletion. By forcing the detach and giving GCE an appropriate timeout limit, this should squash the timeout flake. This also significantly shortens cleanup time.
This PR does not remove the [Flaky] tag. Once this PR is merged, I'll keep an eye on the test grid for ~1 week. If no flakes surface, I'll submit a PR to pull the tag off.
**Which issue this PR fixes** *(optional, in `fixes #<issue number>(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...)` format, will close that issue when PR gets merged)*: fixes #43977
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adding test for volume fstype validation
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
This PR is adding a test for volume fstype validation. Test verifies fstype specified in storage-class is being honored after volume creation.
Steps:
1. Create StorageClass with fstype set to valid type (default case included).
2. Create PVC which uses the StorageClass created in step 1.
3. Wait for PV to be provisioned.
4. Wait for PVC's status to become Bound.
5. Create pod using PVC on specific node.
6. Wait for Disk to be attached to the node.
7. Execute command in the pod to get fstype.
8. Delete pod and Wait for Volume Disk to be detached from the Node.
9. Delete PVC, PV and Storage Class.
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cc: @jeffvance @tusharnt
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improve error handling in e2e helpers
**What this PR does / why we need it**:
Changes most of the volume related helper funcs to return error rather than calling `Expect`. This is a better programming practice, is consistent with Go and Kubernetes, and allows helper funcs that create multiple resources to perform cleanup.
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Chao Xu