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Feature: Coordinated Leader Election #3309

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Upstream KEP: kubernetes/enhancements#4355

I think it would be nice if controller-runtime would support coordinated leader election similar to how we support the "regular" leader election today

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  1. sbueringer commented on Sep 5, 2025

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  2. dongjiang1989 commented on Sep 11, 2025

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    @sbueringer @alvaroaleman I'll pick on this issue to work on

  3. sbueringer commented on Sep 11, 2025

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    Thx!

    /assign @dongjiang1989

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  8. schrej commented on Jan 9, 2026

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    /remove-lifecycle rotten

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  10. sbueringer commented on Jan 12, 2026

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    /lifecycle frozen

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