This component accomplishes that in the following ways:

1. By installing a separate, very basic "CNI plugin" binary onto the node to forward low-level pod lifecycle events (CmdAdd/CmdDel/etc) from whatever node-level CNI subsystem is in use to this node agent for processing via socket.
1. By running as a node-level daemonset that:

  // MaxUnavailableStatefulSet feature. The field applies to all pods in the range 0 to
  // Replicas-1. That means if there is any unavailable pod in the range 0 to Replicas-1, it
  // will be counted towards MaxUnavailable.
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.util.intstr.IntOrString maxUnavailable = 2;
}

// Scale represents a scaling request for a resource.
message Scale {

In the end, [after evaluation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c2123cKuYsBDpIon9FFdctWTUIMFweSjgwG7r8l3818/edit), the decision was to move forward with a Rust implementation.
This offered performance benefits that were too large to leave on the table, as well as opportunities to tune to our specific needs.

## Configuration protocol

  //   running pods are terminated.
  // - Ignore: indicates that the counter towards the .backoffLimit is not
  //   incremented and a replacement pod is created.
  // - Count: indicates that the pod is handled in the default way - the
  //   counter towards the .backoffLimit is incremented.
  // Additional values are considered to be added in the future. Clients should

  // DriverName defines the name of the dynamic resource driver that is
  // used for allocation of a ResourceClaim that uses this class.
  //
  // Resource drivers have a unique name in forward domain order
  // (acme.example.com).
  optional string driverName = 2;

  // ParametersRef references an arbitrary separate object that may hold
  // parameters that will be used by the driver when allocating a

// PodPortForwardOptions is the query options to a Pod's port forward call
// when using WebSockets.
// The `port` query parameter must specify the port or
// ports (comma separated) to forward over.
// Port forwarding over SPDY does not use these options. It requires the port
// to be passed in the `port` header as part of request.
message PodPortForwardOptions {
  // List of ports to forward
  // Required when using WebSockets

  optional int64 seconds = 1;

  // Non-negative fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution. Negative
  // second values with fractions must still have non-negative nanos values
  // that count forward in time. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999
  // inclusive. This field may be limited in precision depending on context.
  optional int32 nanos = 2;
}

  // MaxUnavailableStatefulSet feature. The field applies to all pods in the range 0 to
  // Replicas-1. That means if there is any unavailable pod in the range 0 to Replicas-1, it
  // will be counted towards MaxUnavailable.
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.util.intstr.IntOrString maxUnavailable = 2;
}

// StatefulSet represents a set of pods with consistent identities.
// Identities are defined as:

  // MaxUnavailableStatefulSet feature. The field applies to all pods in the range 0 to
  // Replicas-1. That means if there is any unavailable pod in the range 0 to Replicas-1, it
  // will be counted towards MaxUnavailable.
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.util.intstr.IntOrString maxUnavailable = 2;
}

// Scale represents a scaling request for a resource.
message Scale {