Gardener Extension for Equinix Metal provider

Project Gardener implements the automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. Its main principle is to leverage Kubernetes concepts for all of its tasks.

Recently, most of the vendor specific logic has been developed in-tree. However, the project has grown to a size where it is very hard to extend, maintain, and test. With GEP-1 we have proposed how the architecture can be changed in a way to support external controllers that contain their very own vendor specifics. This way, we can keep Gardener core clean and independent.

This controller implements Gardener's extension contract for the Equinix Metal provider.

An example for a ControllerRegistration resource that can be used to register this controller to Gardener can be found here.

Please find more information regarding the extensibility concepts and a detailed proposal here.

Supported Kubernetes versions

This extension controller supports the following Kubernetes versions:

Version	Support	Conformance test results
Kubernetes 1.30	untested	N/A
Kubernetes 1.29	untested	N/A
Kubernetes 1.28	untested	N/A
Kubernetes 1.27	untested	N/A
Kubernetes 1.26	untested	N/A
Kubernetes 1.25	untested	N/A

Please take a look here to see which versions are supported by Gardener in general.

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How to start using or developing this extension controller locally

You can run the controller locally on your machine by executing make start.

Static code checks and tests can be executed by running make verify. We are using Go modules for Golang package dependency management and Ginkgo/Gomega for testing.

Caveats

You can use all available disks on your Equinix instance, but only under certain conditions:

• You must use Flatcar
• You must have a homogenous worker pool (all workers use the same OS and container engine)
• You must set any value for DataVolume

Feedback and Support

Feedback and contributions are always welcome. Please report bugs or suggestions as GitHub issues or join our Slack channel #gardener (please invite yourself to the Kubernetes workspace here).

Learn more!

Please find further resources about out project here:

• Our landing page gardener.cloud
• "Gardener, the Kubernetes Botanist" blog on kubernetes.io
• "Gardener Project Update" blog on kubernetes.io
• GEP-1 (Gardener Enhancement Proposal) on extensibility
• GEP-4 (New core.gardener.cloud/v1beta1 API)
• Extensibility API documentation
• Gardener Extensions Golang library
• Gardener API Reference