Add flag to allow switch off the update of Ingress status

core/pkg/ingress/controller/controller.go

@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ type Configuration struct {
  // Backend is the particular implementation to be used.
  // (for instance NGINX)
  Backend ingress.Controller
+
+ UpdateStatus bool
 }
 
 // newIngressController creates an Ingress controller
@@ -257,11 +259,15 @@ func newIngressController(config *Configuration) *GenericController {
  cache.ResourceEventHandlerFuncs{},
  cache.Indexers{cache.NamespaceIndex: cache.MetaNamespaceIndexFunc})
 
- ic.syncStatus = status.NewStatusSyncer(status.Config{
- Client: config.Client,
- PublishService: ic.cfg.PublishService,
- IngressLister: ic.ingLister,
- })
+ if config.UpdateStatus {
+ ic.syncStatus = status.NewStatusSyncer(status.Config{
+ Client: config.Client,
+ PublishService: ic.cfg.PublishService,
+ IngressLister: ic.ingLister,
+ })
+ } else {
+ glog.Warning("Update of ingress status is disabled (flag --update-status=false was specified)")
+ }
 
  ic.annotations = newAnnotationExtractor(ic)
 
@@ -970,7 +976,9 @@ func (ic GenericController) Stop() error {
  close(ic.stopCh)
  go ic.syncQueue.Shutdown()
  go ic.secretQueue.Shutdown()
- ic.syncStatus.Shutdown()
+ if ic.syncStatus != nil {
+ ic.syncStatus.Shutdown()
+ }
  return nil
  }
 
@@ -990,7 +998,9 @@ func (ic GenericController) Start() {
  go ic.secretQueue.Run(5*time.Second, ic.stopCh)
  go ic.syncQueue.Run(5*time.Second, ic.stopCh)
 
- go ic.syncStatus.Run(ic.stopCh)
+ if ic.syncStatus != nil {
+ go ic.syncStatus.Run(ic.stopCh)
+ }
 
  <-ic.stopCh
 }

core/pkg/ingress/controller/launch.go

@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ func NewIngressController(backend ingress.Controller) *GenericController {
 
  defHealthzURL = flags.String("health-check-path", "/healthz", `Defines 
  the URL to be used as health check inside in the default server in NGINX.`)
+
+ updateStatus = flags.Bool("update-status", true, `Indicates if the 
+ ingress controller should update the Ingress status IP/hostname. Default is true`)
  )
 
  flags.AddGoFlagSet(flag.CommandLine)
@@ -134,6 +137,7 @@ func NewIngressController(backend ingress.Controller) *GenericController {
  os.MkdirAll(ingress.DefaultSSLDirectory, 0655)
 
  config := &Configuration{
+ UpdateStatus: *updateStatus,
  Client: kubeClient,
  ResyncPeriod: *resyncPeriod,
  DefaultService: *defaultSvc,