ingress-nginx: Missing builds / outdated builds

[threadcrux]

$kubectl krew install ingress-nginx


Updated the local copy of plugin index.
Installing plugin: ingress-nginx
W1202 05:52:13.993866  126948 install.go:164] failed to install plugin "ingress-nginx": install failed: failed to unpack into staging dir: failed to unpack the plugin archive: failed to obtain plugin archive: failed to download "https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/download/controller-0.31.0/kubectl-ingress_nginx-linux-amd64.tar.gz", status code 404
failed to install some plugins: [ingress-nginx]: install failed: failed to unpack into staging dir: failed to unpack the plugin archive: failed to obtain plugin archive: failed to download "https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/download/controller-0.31.0/kubectl-ingress_nginx-linux-amd64.tar.gz", status code 404

It looks like this specific plugin hasn't been updated in 4 plus years and the old builds have since been discarded.

• Link to last update on plugin definition- Update ingress-nginx plugin #588
• Link to plugin yaml - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew-index/blob/master/plugins/ingress-nginx.yaml
• Link to latest release of the controller - https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/releases/tag/controller-v1.11.3

There's a secondary problem

In the original plugin definition it takes a fully built package which the Kubernetes/ingress-nginx project no longer provides on their releases. I will file a follow up ticket in that repo

[threadcrux]

Doing some initial discovery the original build scripts/make targets have gone missing.

Issue for that filed here: kubernetes/ingress-nginx#12436