That's a great point. But doesn't this make it mandatory for the applications to use Go? It would have been more useful if there was a REST interface for leader election.
Right, but I couldn't find a REST API for leader election. If my app is in Go, I can use the leaderelection package here https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/cli.... But if my app is in Python, I won't be able to use that package. In that case I'd need to use etcd or zookeeper on top of k8s. Am I missing something?
Yes, one can reimplement it in Python, but don't forget:
// This implementation does not guarantee that only one client is acting as a
// leader (a.k.a. fencing). A client observes timestamps captured locally to
// infer the state of the leader election. Thus the implementation is tolerant
// to arbitrary clock skew, but is not tolerant to arbitrary clock skew rate.
