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:

// (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F__vEKeI41P7PPUCMM9PVPYY34pyrvQI5rbTJVnS5c4)
func clusterUID(client kubernetes.Interface) (types.UID, error) {
	kubeSystem, err := client.CoreV1().Namespaces().Get(context.TODO(), "kube-system", metav1.GetOptions{})
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	return kubeSystem.UID, nil