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[robustness tests] Add Watch without PrevKV or ProgressNotify to Kubernetes traffic generator

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#20,622 opened on Sep 8, 2025

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Description

What would you like to be added?

Kubernetes traffic generator should use Watch without ProgressNotify (like apiserver does for events) and without PrevKV (like it does for compact_rev_key). The latter will also help cover the case of non-recursive watch.

In case of Watches on events resource, traffic generator could also open multiple watch streams within the same gRPC stream to better mimic what apiserver does.

Work on this was partially started in https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/20577

Why is this needed?

Part of https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/15820 and https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/20182

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Research direction
Examine the existing Kubernetes traffic generator in the etcd robustness tests. Focus on the watch functionality and understand how to create watch streams without ProgressNotify and without PrevKV. Study the partial implementation in PR #20577 as a reference. Analyze the etcd Watch API to identify the necessary changes.
Tech stack
go
Domain
testingbackend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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3-5 days
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Active
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Clear
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GoKubernetesgRPC
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45