<p>Is it possible to use the python API to create a "custom object" in kubernetes?</p>

<p>Edit:</p>

<p>By custom objects I'm refering to <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/thirdpartyresources/#creating-custom-objects" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a>.</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>There isn't a ready-to-use API yet. Here is a rudimentary example using <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python</a></p>

<pre><code>import json
from kubernetes import client, config

class ThingyApi(object):
    def __init__(self):
        config = client.Configuration()
        if not config.api_client:
            config.api_client = client.ApiClient()
        self.api_client = config.api_client

    def create_thingy(self, body, namespace='default'):
        resource_path = '/apis/example.com/v1/namespaces/' + namespace + '/thingies'
        header_params = {}
        header_params['Accept'] = self.api_client.select_header_accept(['application/json'])
        header_params['Content-Type'] = self.api_client.select_header_content_type(['*/*'])

        (resp, code, header) = self.api_client.call_api(
                resource_path, 'POST', {'namespace': namespace}, {}, header_params, body, [], _preload_content=False)

        return json.loads(resp.data.decode('utf-8'))

config.load_kube_config()

# Create the ThirdPartyResource (Thingy.example.com)
resp = client.ExtensionsV1beta1Api().create_third_party_resource(body={
    'apiVersion': 'extensions/v1beta1',
    'kind': 'ThirdPartyResource',
    'metadata': {'name': 'thingy.example.com'},
    'description': 'For storage of Thingy objects',
    'versions': [{'name': 'v1'}]})
print("ThirdPartyResource created")
print(str(resp))

# Create 3 Thingy objects (mything-{1,2,3})
thingyapi = ThingyApi()
for i in range(1, 4):
    obj = {'apiVersion': 'example.com/v1',
           'metadata': {'name': 'mythingy-'+str(i)},
           'kind': 'Thingy',
           # Arbitrary contents
           'key': 'value',
           'array': [40, 2],
           'object': {'foo': 'bar'}}
    resp = thingyapi.create_thingy(body=obj, namespace='default')
    print(str(resp))
</code></pre>

<p>The output will be something like this:</p>

<pre><code>$ bin/python test.py                                                                                                                                                                    
ThirdPartyResource created
{'api_version': 'extensions/v1beta1',
 'description': 'For storage of Thingy objects',
 'kind': 'ThirdPartyResource',
 'metadata': {'annotations': None,
              'cluster_name': None,
              'creation_timestamp': u'2017-03-14T13:57:07Z',
              'deletion_grace_period_seconds': None,
              'deletion_timestamp': None,
              'finalizers': None,
              'generate_name': None,
              'generation': None,
              'labels': None,
              'name': 'thingy.example.com',
              'namespace': None,
              'owner_references': None,
              'resource_version': '59942',
              'self_link': '/apis/extensions/v1beta1/thirdpartyresourcesthingy.example.com',
              'uid': '1c596824-08be-11e7-9a5f-5254000f561a'},
 'versions': [{'name': 'v1'}]}
{u'kind': u'Thingy', u'object': {u'foo': u'bar'}, u'apiVersion': u'example.com/v1', u'key': u'value', u'array': [40, 2], u'metadata': {u'name': u'mythingy-1', u'namespace': u'default', u'resourceVersion': u'59943', u'creationTimestamp': u'2017-03-14T13:57:07Z', u'selfLink': u'/apis/example.com/v1/namespaces/default/thingies/mythingy-1', u'uid': u'1c59f7ae-08be-11e7-9a5f-5254000f561a'}}
{u'kind': u'Thingy', u'object': {u'foo': u'bar'}, u'apiVersion': u'example.com/v1', u'key': u'value', u'array': [40, 2], u'metadata': {u'name': u'mythingy-2', u'namespace': u'default', u'resourceVersion': u'59944', u'creationTimestamp': u'2017-03-14T13:57:07Z', u'selfLink': u'/apis/example.com/v1/namespaces/default/thingies/mythingy-2', u'uid': u'1c5be2a7-08be-11e7-9a5f-5254000f561a'}}
{u'kind': u'Thingy', u'object': {u'foo': u'bar'}, u'apiVersion': u'example.com/v1', u'key': u'value', u'array': [40, 2], u'metadata': {u'name': u'mythingy-3', u'namespace': u'default', u'resourceVersion': u'59945', u'creationTimestamp': u'2017-03-14T13:57:07Z', u'selfLink': u'/apis/example.com/v1/namespaces/default/thingies/mythingy-3', u'uid': u'1c5c390e-08be-11e7-9a5f-5254000f561a'}}
</code></pre>

<p>Don't forget to run this after:</p>

<pre><code>kubectl delete thingy --all
kubectl delete thirdpartyresource thingy.example.com
</code></pre>
