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Human-readable instance-type node label

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
go, kubernetes

Research direction

Start in internal/provider/instances_v2.go at InstanceMetadata and trace where the instance-type node label is set during node initialization. Check how the node controller treats this label on already-initialized nodes, then document that migration behavior for existing clusters. Done means new nodes use the readable format and the existing-cluster behavior is documented.

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Description

Enhancement Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)

Context

InstanceMetadata (internal/provider/instances_v2.go) formats the instance type as fmt.Sprintf("%d-%d", ncpus, memoryGiB), producing node.kubernetes.io/instance-type: "4-16" — cryptic in kubectl get nodes -L output.

Scope

Switch to a readable format such as 4vcpu-16gb.

⚠️ This changes the value of an existing node label. Scope includes checking how/whether the label updates on already-initialized nodes (the node controller generally only sets it at initialization) and documenting the behavior for existing clusters.

Done when

New nodes get the readable format and the migration behavior is documented.

Dominant language
Go
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6
Forks
2
Avg merge
2h 37m
Merged PRs (30d)
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