What happened?

When deploying kind, then vcluster, then interlink (which deploys a virtual kubelet), the virtual node from interlink is deleted by vcluster.

What did you expect to happen?

The virtual node appears when doing kubectl get node.

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

• deploy kind 0.19.0
• deploy vcluster 0.18.1 or 0.19.4
• deploy interlink core component (see https://intertwin-eu.github.io/interLink/docs/tutorial-admins/deploy-interlink)

Anything else we need to know?

See https://github.com/interTwin-eu/interLink/issues/260

This error pattern appears in vcluster logs:

delete virtual node my-vk-node, because it is not needed anymore

Which means vcluster deletes it. The code from vcluster is at https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/blob/v0.19.4/pkg/controllers/resources/nodes/syncer.go#L271 , at SyncToHost . I think vcluster thinks of the virtual kubelet as one of its own virtual node, and deletes it because it does not recognize it.

Host cluster Kubernetes version

$ kubectl version
Client Version: v1.28.2
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.29.0

vcluster version

VCluster Config

# My vcluster.yaml / values.yaml here