* that the {@link ServiceManager} functions properly even when it is managing no services.
   *
   * <p>The use of this class is considered an implementation detail of ServiceManager and as such
   * it is excluded from {@link #servicesByState}, {@link #startupTimes}, {@link #toString} and all
   * logging statements.
   */
  private static final class NoOpService extends AbstractService {
    @Override

      }
    }

    fun matchesHostname(hostname: String): Boolean =
      when {
        pattern.startsWith("**.") -> {
          // With ** empty prefixes match so exclude the dot from regionMatches().
          val suffixLength = pattern.length - 3
          val prefixLength = hostname.length - suffixLength

  }

  /**
   * Examines the Inet6Address to determine if it is an IPv6 address of one of the specified address
   * types that contain an embedded IPv4 address.
   *
   * <p>NOTE: ISATAP addresses are explicitly excluded from this method due to their trivial
   * spoofability. With other transition addresses spoofing involves (at least) infection of one's
   * BGP routing table.
   *

       *
       * We already know that that's how it behaves, and subclasses of Converter can't change that
       * behavior. So there's no sense in making all subclass authors exclude the method from any
       * NullPointerTester tests that they have.
       */
      ignoredMembers.add(Converter.class.getMethod("apply", Object.class));
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException shouldBeImpossible) {

- Kube-apiserver: Each unique set of etcd server overrides specified with `--etcd-servers-overrides` surfaced health checks named `etcd-override-<index>` and `etcd-override-readiness-<index>`. These checks were still excluded by the `?exclude=etcd` and `?exclude=etcd-readiness` directives. ([#129438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129438), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

   * are thus excluded from consideration. Since it refers to elements in UNDER of the same type,
   * the type is actually not important here. The map is simply used for consistency reasons.
   */
  public static final ImmutableMap<String, PublicSuffixType> EXCLUDED =
      TrieParser.parseTrie(

  - the node label `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` which excludes a node from cloud load balancers (using Service Type=LoadBalancer) is deprecated in favor of `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer`. Support for `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` will be removed in v1.18.

- Features:

- Discovery document will correctly return the resources for aggregated apiservers that do not implement aggregated disovery ([#115770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115770), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- Excluded preemptor pod metadata in the event message ([#114923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114923), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))
- Expanded the partial fix for https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/111539

- Kubeadm: apply the "node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers" label on control plane nodes during "init", "join" and "upgrade" to preserve backwards compatibility with the lagacy LB mode where nodes labeled as "master" where excluded. To opt-out you can remove the label from a node. See #97543 and the linked KEP for more details. ([#98269](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98269),...

- Revised the logic for `DaemonSet` rolling update to exclude nodes if scheduling constraints are not met. This eliminates the problem of rolling updates to a `DaemonSet` getting stuck around tolerations. ([#119317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119317), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875))...