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<ins> /* Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ // Note: the example only works with the code within the same release/branch. package main import ( "bufio" "flag" "fmt" "os" "path/filepath" apiv1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1" metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1" "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured" "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema" "k8s.io/client-go/dynamic" "k8s.io/client-go/tools/clientcmd" "k8s.io/client-go/util/homedir" "k8s.io/client-go/util/retry" // // Uncomment to load all auth plugins // _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth // // Or uncomment to load specific auth plugins // _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/azure" // _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/gcp" // _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/oidc" // _ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/openstack" ) func main() { var kubeconfig *string if home := homedir.HomeDir(); home != "" { kubeconfig = flag.String("kubeconfig", filepath.Join(home, ".kube", "config"), "(optional) absolute path to the kubeconfig file") } else { kubeconfig = flag.String("kubeconfig", "", "absolute path to the kubeconfig file") } flag.Parse() namespace := "default" config, err := clientcmd.BuildConfigFromFlags("", *kubeconfig) if err != nil { panic(err) } client, err := dynamic.NewForConfig(config) if err != nil { panic(err) } deploymentRes := schema.GroupVersionResource{Group: "apps", Version: "v1", Resource: "deployments"} deployment := &unstructured.Unstructured{ Object: map[string]interface{}{ "apiVersion": "apps/v1", "kind":       "Deployment", "metadata": map[string]interface{}{ "name": "demo-deployment", }, "spec": map[string]interface{}{ "replicas": 2, "selector": map[string]interface{}{ "matchLabels": map[string]interface{}{ "app": "demo", }, }, "template": map[string]interface{}{ "metadata": map[string]interface{}{ "labels": map[string]interface{}{ "app": "demo", }, }, "spec": map[string]interface{}{ "containers": []map[string]interface{}{ { "name":  "web", "image": "nginx:1.12", "ports": []map[string]interface{}{ { "name":          "http", "protocol":      "TCP", "containerPort": 80, }, }, }, }, }, }, }, }, } // Create Deployment fmt.Println("Creating deployment...") result, err := client.Resource(deploymentRes).Namespace(namespace).Create(deployment, metav1.CreateOptions{}) if err != nil { panic(err) } fmt.Printf("Created deployment %q.n", result.GetName()) // Update Deployment prompt() fmt.Println("Updating deployment...") //    You have two options to Update() this Deployment: // //    1. Modify the "deployment" variable and call: Update(deployment). //       This works like the "kubectl replace" command and it overwrites/loses changes //       made by other clients between you Create() and Update() the object. //    2. Modify the "result" returned by Get() and retry Update(result) until //       you no longer get a conflict error. This way, you can preserve changes made //       by other clients between Create() and Update(). This is implemented below //			 using the retry utility package included with client-go. (RECOMMENDED) // // More Info: // https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#concurrency-control-and-consistency retryErr := retry.RetryOnConflict(retry.DefaultRetry, func() error { // Retrieve the latest version of Deployment before attempting update // RetryOnConflict uses exponential backoff to avoid exhausting the apiserver result, getErr := client.Resource(deploymentRes).Namespace(namespace).Get("demo-deployment", metav1.GetOptions{}) if getErr != nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("Failed to get latest version of Deployment: %v", getErr)) } // update replicas to 1 if err := unstructured.SetNestedField(result.Object, int64(1), "spec", "replicas"); err != nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("Failed to set replica value: %v", err)) } // extract spec containers containers, found, err := unstructured.NestedSlice(result.Object, "spec", "template", "spec", "containers") if err != nil || !found || containers == nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("Deployment containers not found or error in spec: %v", err)) } // update container[0] image if err := unstructured.SetNestedField(containers[0].(map[string]interface{}), "nginx:1.13", "image"); err != nil { panic(err) } if err := unstructured.SetNestedField(result.Object, containers, "spec", "template", "spec", "containers"); err != nil { panic(err) } _, updateErr := client.Resource(deploymentRes).Namespace(namespace).Update(result, metav1.UpdateOptions{}) return updateErr }) if retryErr != nil { panic(fmt.Errorf("Update failed: %v", retryErr)) } fmt.Println("Updated deployment...") // List Deployments prompt() fmt.Printf("Listing deployments in namespace %q:n", apiv1.NamespaceDefault) list, err := client.Resource(deploymentRes).Namespace(namespace).List(metav1.ListOptions{}) if err != nil { panic(err) } for _, d := range list.Items { replicas, found, err := unstructured.NestedInt64(d.Object, "spec", "replicas") if err != nil || !found { fmt.Printf("Replicas not found for deployment %s: error=%s", d.GetName(), err) continue } fmt.Printf(" * %s (%d replicas)n", d.GetName(), replicas) } // Delete Deployment prompt() fmt.Println("Deleting deployment...") deletePolicy := metav1.DeletePropagationForeground deleteOptions := &metav1.DeleteOptions{ PropagationPolicy: &deletePolicy, } if err := client.Resource(deploymentRes).Namespace(namespace).Delete("demo-deployment", deleteOptions); err != nil { panic(err) } fmt.Println("Deleted deployment.") } func prompt() { fmt.Printf("-> Press Return key to continue.") scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin) for scanner.Scan() { break } if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil { panic(err) } fmt.Println() } </ins>

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What would you like to be : Add documentation/example showing the usage of dynamic package in the client-go repo. /sig api-machinery