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Updating Kubernetes to a later version

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, kubernetes

Research direction

Start in go/pkg/controller/controller.go, especially the UpdateStatus call at line 129, and run the controller package tests to reproduce the Kubernetes API mismatch. Review the existing Kubernetes dependencies and update the stack to a compatible later version; done means the controller package builds and its tests pass.

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Description

In Linux distribution, we are mostly packaging unbundled libraries. Vpnkit presents a challenge because it uses a very old (2017) K8S stack, which causes compatibility issues like:

# github.com/moby/vpnkit/go/pkg/controller [github.com/moby/vpnkit/go/pkg/controller.test]
./controller.go:129:68: not enough arguments in call to c.services.Services(service.Namespace).UpdateStatus
        have (*"k8s.io/api/core/v1".Service)
        want (context.Context, *"k8s.io/api/core/v1".Service, "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1".UpdateOptions)
FAIL    github.com/moby/vpnkit/go/pkg/controller [build failed]

Would it be possible to update vpnkit to a more recent K8S stack?

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