Mention management of metadata.generation and status.observedGeneration.
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| ## Client Determination of Readiness | ||
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| Some servers (such as Kubernetes) may separate updates of the resource `spec` |
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not 100% sure but I think you mean for the "may" here to be "MAY" (meaning normative), right?
The stuff after the semi-colon doesn't flow right to me. What about:
Server implementations MAY separate updates of the resource spec and the status fields.
Whether an implementation does so or not, any update to the spec of a resource MUST result in the spec.metadata.generation field being updated (according to the Kubernetes rules). Implementation MUST update the status.observedGeneration field when all updates related to a corresponding spec.metadata.generation set of field values have been applied.
When determining whether a resource is "Ready", client implementations are expected to not only check the status.conditions values, but also whether the status.observedGeneration and spec.metadata.generation values are equal.
However, the more I think about this, the more it bothers me. ;-) Let's take the case where a resource is Ready but for whatever reason the "spec" section is updated a lot, but in ways that don't really impact much... e.g. maybe annotations are added/removed because some 3rd party tool is using that to control some non-Knative aspects of the overall system. Should the two "generation" values being different really make clients believe that the resource isn't ready and therefore not do things like send events to it? Having clients switch between thinking the resource is ready and not continually even tho all of the Conditions say "true" sounds like we're asking for things to be racey and intermittent - and give spotty performance.
Why not keep it simple and have clients only check the conditions and then the server can decide when to change the conditions? If it determines that it wants to change it on ANY change to the spec, then it can do so - even w/o actually doing the reconciliation.
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FWIW - clients should look at the generation values and compare them to understand if the changes applied to spec have been fullfilled.
This doesn't preclude clients from sending trafffic - but you're sending traffic to something that doesn't match the desired spec.
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@evankanderson do you still want this PR to merge? I didn't see a reply to @duglin's comment. |
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Document management of
status.observedGenerationand client behavior from this comment.TODO: experiment whether mutating webhooks could actually clear Conditions during PATCH of
spec. If so, update webhooks and then we can remove this section.