Collect the InstallationID

[shaun-nx]

UAC:

• Determine if NIC is installed as a Daemonset or a Deployment
• Get the UID of the Daemonset/Deployment

Example of UID from kubectl get deploy <deployment_name> -o yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  annotations:
   ....
  creationTimestamp: "2024-03-06T08:35:52Z"
  generation: 2
  labels:
    ....
  name: test-nginx-ingress-controller
  namespace: default
  uid: 3ec77c9f-0ddc-44ab-8d3e-46208077d23f
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/instance: test
      app.kubernetes.io/name: nginx-ingress

Example of UID from kubectl get damonset <daemonset_name> -o yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  annotations:
    ....
  creationTimestamp: "2024-03-06T11:15:56Z"
  generation: 1
  labels:
   ....
  name: test-nginx-ingress-controller
  namespace: default
  uid: f95aff08-2736-4c84-a031-e8ad66118176
spec:
  revisionHistoryLimit: 10
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/instance: test
      app.kubernetes.io/name: nginx-ingress

For nginx-gateway-fabric, they use the UID of the Deployment:
https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-gateway-fabric/blob/f33db51fc9e05ccf98fc8cdae100772a5cc6775e/internal/mode/static/telemetry/collector.go#L244-L248

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ALL DETAILS and REQUIREMENTS BELOW ARE OBSOLETE !!!

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All details below here is from our original discussion around generated a GUID, which we are now calling the InstallationID

We want this GUID to be fully unique to ensure that multiple deployments/daemonsets of NIC on a single cluster can be uniquely identified:

Possible format:
A hash of ClusterID + pod-namespace + name + kind

Example GUID before hashing for a deployment kind (separated by / in this case)

d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851/nginx-ingress/nginx-ingress/deployment

Example GUID after hashing for a deployment kind

echo d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851/nginx-ingress/nginx-ingress/deployment | md5sum -t
23beab5d71a12ce7ed3db70e9a7beeda

Example of GUID for a daemonset kind:

echo d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851/nginx-ingress/nginx-ingress/daemonset | md5sum -t
413708edb16319506eba73642b46b9e5

[github-actions]

Hi @shaun-nx thanks for reporting!

Be sure to check out the docs and the Contributing Guidelines while you wait for a human to take a look at this 🙂

Cheers!