@maiqueb this is the rebase we talked about, please help with the review as well.

we needed to update the whereabouts_test to use unique pod names in some of the test cases to complete successfully the test suite

Would you elaborate on this ? Why wasn't this needed before but is now ?

we needed to update the whereabouts_test to use unique pod names in some of the test cases to complete successfully the test suite

Would you elaborate on this ? Why wasn't this needed before but is now ?

because after this patch in case podRef already has a allocation in the pool the existing allocation is returned and in the test cases the same podRef was always passed thus the same allocation returned.

for example in whereabouts_test.go test case "allocates and releases addresses on ADD/DEL with a Kubernetes backend" it wants to allocate all IP's in the range but it was passing the same podRef so it was only allocating 1 IP in the range and marking the Test as failed. I updated the TC so that it uses unique podRef when calling allocations so to get the full range allocated.

also to note I tested in a EKS cluster and everything was working as expected

One question: when this behavior happens is it essentially the same pod, or a different one ? What is being re-created ? The pod (since it is a stateful set, the "new" pod will have the same name) or the container in the pod ? Are the UIDs the same ?

Assuming it is the pod that is re-created, I am worried because this feature seems to be implementing persistent IPs for stateful sets.

I am currently working on something similar, but I need need it for other workload types (kubevirt virtual machines). I'm trying to work on a way to implement this feature in a generic way allowing it to work for different types of workloads (stateful sets, virtual machines, etc).

FWIW, I've looked at the code, and the solution looks good.

@dougbtv could you chime in from your perspective ?

its new pod with same name, we missed the CMD DEL because the node where original pod was running was crashed.

so yes in a sense its persistent IP for statefulset as long as there is no CMD DEL coming for it

how I tested was on AWS EKS with Auto Scale Groups, I crash the EC2 instance and wait for ASG to delete the crashed EC2 Instance and create a new one, so fresh instance will be chosen to run the stateful pod, since it has the same name, we allocate the same IP as before.

previously in this case, a new IP was allocated, so "same" pod had two allocations, but only using one, and since pod is running the ip-reconciler didnt pick up this scenario, so original ip was leaked, do this enough and you run out of allocations.