Integration testing has to this point relied on patching serving codecs for built-in APIs. The
test-only patching is removed and replaced by feature gated checks at runtime.
For alpha, there is one apiserver feature gate and two client-go feature gates controlling
CBOR. They were initially wired to separate test-only feature gate instances in order to prevent
them from being configurable at runtime via command-line flags or environment variables (for
client-go feature gates outside of Kubernetes components). All of the integration tests required by
the KEP as alpha criteria have been implemented. This adds the feature gates to the usual feature
gate instances and removes the temporary code to support separate test-only feature gate instances.
The existing admission webhook integration test provides good coverage of serving built-in resources
and custom resources, including subresources. Serialization concerns, including roundtrippability,
of built-in types have existing test coverage; the CBOR variant of the admission webhook integration
test additionally exercises client and server codec wiring.
As with the apiserver feature gate for CBOR as a serving and storage encoding, the client feature
gates for CBOR are being initially added through a test-only feature gate instance that is not wired
to environment variables or to command-line flags and is intended only to be enabled
programmatically from integration tests. The test-only instance will be removed as part of alpha
graduation and replaced by conventional client feature gating.
To mitigate the risk of introducing a new protocol, integration tests for CBOR will be written using
a test-only feature gate instance that is not wired to runtime options. On alpha graduation, the
test-only feature gate instance will be replaced by a normal feature gate in the existing apiserver
feature gate instance.
