Migrate to client-go

[ianlewis]

It may take a while but since the dashboard is essentially just a client application using the Kubernetes API, it would be good to migrate to the official Go client at some point.

Is this even feasible?

[bryk]

Yes, this should be doable. When we started the UI project there was no client-go project yet. That wa sthe reason.

[floreks]

We've discussed that already in #1395. Unfortunately at this point client-go can not be used by dashboard. We are using some utility functions available only in the core for now. Additionally there is a problem with object types that requires much work to resolve. I have started to work on that and even have a branch but we have to wait until these issues are resolved.

[bryk]

We are using some utility functions available only in the core for now.

Do you remember what functions are those?

[floreks]

k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/controller/deployment/util, k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util and probably k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/resource.

There might be something else though.

[ianlewis]

A cursory look also leads me to believe that it currently doesn't support exec/attach API which is required for #1345

Created an issue for it: kubernetes/client-go#45