From cb190fcbbac5fbafb9e9b34ffe17544456ab6a92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wojtekt <wojtekt@google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:57:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use protobufs for communication with apiserver

---
 cmd/glbc/app/clients.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/glbc/app/clients.go b/cmd/glbc/app/clients.go
index 6e36dffdac..4940d9108d 100644
--- a/cmd/glbc/app/clients.go
+++ b/cmd/glbc/app/clients.go
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ const (
 
 // NewKubeConfig returns a Kubernetes client config given the command line settings.
 func NewKubeConfig() (*rest.Config, error) {
+	config, err := newKubeConfig()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Use protobufs for communication with apiserver
+	config.ContentType = "application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf"
+	return config, nil
+}
+
+func newKubeConfig() (*rest.Config, error) {
 	if flags.F.InCluster {
 		klog.V(0).Infof("Using in cluster configuration")
 		return rest.InClusterConfig()