linkerd2/controller/api
Matei David 983fc55abc
Introduce new external endpoints controller (#11905)
For mesh expansion, we need to register an ExternalWorkload's service
membership. Service memberships describe which Service objects an
ExternalWorkload is part of (i.e. which service can be used to route
traffic to an external endpoint).

Service membership will allow the control plane to discover
configuration associated with an external endpoint when performing
discovery on a service target.

To build these memberships, we introduce a new controller to the
destination service, responsible for watching Service and
ExternalWorkload objects, and for writing out EndpointSlice objects for
each Service that selects one or more external endpoints.

As a first step, we add a new externalworkload module and a new controller in the
that watches services and workloads. In a follow-up change, 
the ExternalEndpointManager will additionally perform
the necessary reconciliation by writing EndpointSlice objects.

Since Linkerd's control plane may run in HA, we also add a lease object
that will be used by the manager. When a lease is claimed, a flag is
turned on in the manager to let it know it may perform writes.

A more compact list of changes:
* Add a new externalworkload module
* Add an EndpointsController in the module along with necessary mechanisms to watch resources.
* Add RBAC rules to the destination service:
  * Allow policy and destination to read ExternalWorkload objects
  * Allow destination to create / update / read Lease objects

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Signed-off-by: Matei David <matei@buoyant.io>
2024-01-17 12:15:28 +00:00
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destination Introduce new external endpoints controller (#11905) 2024-01-17 12:15:28 +00:00
util Fuzzing: Move fuzzers upstream (#7419) 2022-05-05 13:01:00 -06:00