Kubelet provides an updated and complete status of local-static Pods

pkg/kubelet/kubelet_getters.go

@@ -142,7 +142,15 @@ func (kl *Kubelet) getPodContainerDir(podUID types.UID, ctrName string) string {
 // GetPods returns all pods bound to the kubelet and their spec, and the mirror
 // pods.
 func (kl *Kubelet) GetPods() []*v1.Pod {
-	return kl.podManager.GetPods()
+	pods := kl.podManager.GetPods()
+	// a kubelet running without apiserver requires an additional
+	// update of the static pod status. See #57106
+	for _, p := range pods {
+		if status, ok := kl.statusManager.GetPodStatus(p.UID); ok {
+			p.Status = status
+		}
+	}
+	return pods
 }
 
 // GetRunningPods returns all pods running on kubelet from looking at the

pkg/kubelet/kubelet_pods.go

@@ -1359,18 +1359,15 @@ func (kl *Kubelet) generateAPIPodStatus(pod *v1.Pod, podStatus *kubecontainer.Po
 		Status: v1.ConditionTrue,
 	})
 
-	if kl.kubeClient != nil {
-		hostIP, err := kl.getHostIPAnyWay()
-		if err != nil {
-			glog.V(4).Infof("Cannot get host IP: %v", err)
-		} else {
-			s.HostIP = hostIP.String()
-			if kubecontainer.IsHostNetworkPod(pod) && s.PodIP == "" {
-				s.PodIP = hostIP.String()
-			}
-		}
+	hostIP, err := kl.getHostIPAnyWay()
+	if err != nil {
+		glog.V(4).Infof("Cannot get host IP: %v", err)
+		return *s
+	}
+	s.HostIP = hostIP.String()
+	if kubecontainer.IsHostNetworkPod(pod) && s.PodIP == "" {
+		s.PodIP = hostIP.String()
 	}
-
 	return *s
 }