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Not at all - it's just a language for which there is a Kubernetes client. The API is 100% REST. We have a Python library underway also: https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/client-python

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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?

You can reimplement that logic in Python. There's nothing magic about it: you can see in https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/cli... that it just uses a Kubernetes annotation.

There's some more information (and a sidecar pod prebaked) at http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/01/simple-leader-election-wit...

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.

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