ceph-csi/vendor/k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/util/pluginwatcher

This folder contains a utility, pluginwatcher, for Kubelet to register
different types of node-level plugins such as device plugins or CSI plugins.
It discovers plugins by monitoring inotify events under the directory returned by
kubelet.getPluginsDir(). Lets refer this directory as PluginsSockDir.
For any discovered plugin, pluginwatcher issues Registration.GetInfo grpc call
to get plugin type, name and supported service API versions. For any registered plugin type,
pluginwatcher calls the registered callback function with the received plugin
name, supported service API versions, and the full socket path. The Kubelet
component that receives this callback can acknowledge or reject the plugin
according to its own logic, and use the socket path to establish its service
communication with any API version supported by the plugin.

Here are the general rules that Kubelet plugin developers should follow:
- Run as 'root' user. Currently creating socket under PluginsSockDir, a root owned directory, requires
  plugin process to be running as 'root'.
- Implements the Registration service specified in
  pkg/kubelet/apis/pluginregistration/v*/api.proto.
- The plugin name sent during Registration.GetInfo grpc should be unique
  for the given plugin type (CSIPlugin or DevicePlugin).
- The socket path needs to be unique and doesn't conflict with the path chosen
  by any other potential plugins. Currently we only support flat fs namespace
  under PluginsSockDir but will soon support recursive inotify watch for
  hierarchical socket paths.
- A plugin should clean up its own socket upon exiting or when a new instance
  comes up. A plugin should NOT remove any sockets belonging to other plugins.
- A plugin should make sure it has service ready for any supported service API
  version listed in the PluginInfo.
- For an example plugin implementation, take a look at example_plugin.go
  included in this directory.