🌱 Add a design document to filter cache by selectors

designs/use-selectors-at-cache.md

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+Filter cache ListWatch using selectors
+===================
+## Motivation
+
+Controller-Runtime controllers use a cache to subscribe to events from
+Kubernetes objects and to read those objects more efficiently by avoiding
+to call out to the API. This cache is backed by Kubernetes informers.
+
+The only way to filter this cache is by namespace and resource type.
+In cases where a controller is only interested in a small subset of objects
+(for example all pods on a node), this might end up not being efficient enough.
+
+Requests to a client backed by a filtered cache for objects that do not match
+the filter will never return anything, so we need to make sure that we properly
+warn users to only use this when they are sure they know what they are doing.
+
+This proposal sidesteps the issue of "How to we plug this into the cache-backed
+client so that users get feedback when they request something that is
+not matching the caches filter" by only implementing the filter logic in the
+cache package. This allows advanced users to combine a filtered cache with the
+already existing `NewCacheFunc` option in the manager and cluster package,
+while simultaneously hiding it from newer users that might not be aware of the
+implications and the associated foot-shoot potential.
+
+The only alternative today to get a filtered cache with controller-runtime is
+to build it out-of tree. Because such a cache would mostly copy the existing
+cache and add just some options, this is not great for consumers.
+
+This proposal is related to the following issue [2]
+
+## Proposal
+
+Add a new selector code at `pkg/cache/internal/selector.go` with common structs
+and helpers
+```golang
+package internal
+
+...
+
+// SelectorsByObject associate a runtime.Object to a field/label selector
+type SelectorsByObject map[client.Object]Selector
+
+// SelectorsByGVK associate a GroupVersionResource to a field/label selector
+type SelectorsByGVK map[schema.GroupVersionKind]Selector
+
+// Selector specify the label/field selector to fill in ListOptions
+type Selector struct {
+	Label labels.Selector
+	Field fields.Selector
+}
+
+// ApplyToList fill in ListOptions LabelSelector and FieldSelector if needed
+func (s Selector) ApplyToList(listOpts *metav1.ListOptions) {
+...
+}
+
+
+Add a type alias to `pkg/cache/cache.go` to internal
+
+```golang
+
+type SelectorsByObject internal.SelectorsByObject
+
+```
+
+Extend `cache.Options` as follows:
+
+```golang
+type Options struct {
+	Scheme            *runtime.Scheme
+	Mapper            meta.RESTMapper
+	Resync            *time.Duration
+	Namespace         string
+	SelectorsByObject SelectorsByObject
+}
+```
+
+Add new builder function that will return a cache constructor using the passed
+cache.Options, users can set SelectorsByObject there to filter out cache, it
+will convert SelectorByObject to SelectorsByGVK
+
+
+```golang
+func BuilderWithOptions(options cache.Options) NewCacheFunc {
+...
+}
+```
+
+is passed to informer's ListWatch and add the filtering option:
+
+```golang
+
+# At pkg/cache/internal/informers_map.go
+
+ListFunc: func(opts metav1.ListOptions) (runtime.Object, error) {
+            ip.selectors[gvk].ApplyToList(&opts)
+...
+```
+
+Here is a PR with the implementatin at the `pkg/cache` part [3]
+
+## Example
+
+User will override `NewCache` function to make clear that they know exactly the
+implications of using a different cache than the default one
+
+```golang
+ ctrl.Options.NewCache = cache.BuilderWithOptions(cache.Options{
+                            SelectorsByObject: cache.SelectorsByObject{
+                                    &corev1.Node{}: {
+                                        Field: fields.SelectorFromSet(fields.Set{"metadata.name": "node01"}),
+                                    }
+                                    &v1beta1.NodeNetworkState{}: {
+                                        Field: fields.SelectorFromSet(fields.Set{"metadata.name": "node01"}),
+                                        Label: labels.SelectorFromSet(labels.Set{"app": "kubernetes-nmstate})",
+                                    }
+                                }
+                            }
+                        )
+```
+
+
+[1] https://github.com/nmstate/kubernetes-nmstate/pull/687
+[2] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/issues/244
+[3] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/pull/1404