How to create custom objects in Kubernetes?

I am using Velero to create and backup and restore, Velero has controllers which get triggered when I can create the custom objects.

import veleroApi "github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/pkg/apis/velero/v1"

restoreObj := veleroApi.Restore{
	TypeMeta:   metav1.TypeMeta{},
	ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
		DeletionGracePeriodSeconds: &gracePeriodSeconds,
	},
	Spec:       veleroApi.RestoreSpec{
		BackupName:              "backup-name-20211101",
		RestorePVs:              &restorePV,
	},
	Status:     veleroApi.RestoreStatus{},
}

But how can I submit this custom object to the Kube API server?

I used API client to apply the changes:

apiClient.CoreV1().RESTClient().Patch(types.ApplyPatchType).Body(restoreObj).Do(context)

But I am getting:

unknown type used for body: {TypeMeta:{Kind:Restore APIVersion:velero.io/v1} ObjectMeta:{Name: GenerateName: Namespace:velero SelfLink: UID: ResourceVersion: Generation:0 CreationTimestamp:0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC DeletionTimestamp:<nil> DeletionGracePeriodSeconds:0xc000256018 Labels:map[] Annotations:map[] OwnerReferences:[] Finalizers:[] ClusterName: ManagedFields:[]} Spec:{BackupName:backup-name-20211101 ScheduleName: IncludedNamespaces:[] ExcludedNamespaces:[] IncludedResources:[] ExcludedResources:[] NamespaceMapping:map[] LabelSelector:nil RestorePVs:0xc0007a9088 PreserveNodePorts:<nil> IncludeClusterResources:<nil> Hooks:{Resources:[]}} Status:{Phase: ValidationErrors:[] Warnings:0 Errors:0 FailureReason: StartTimestamp:<nil> CompletionTimestamp:<nil> Progress:<nil>}}

If you would like to create a client for custom object follow the following steps:

1. Describe the custom resource for which you would like to create a rest client:

kubectl describe CustomResourceDefinition <custom resource definition name>

Note down the API and version and the Kind, as an example it would look like:

API Version:  apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
Kind:         CustomResourceDefinition

Here, apiextensions.k8s.io is API and v1 is the version.

2. Check if the API version that you got from step 1 is in the list of APIs:

kubectl get --raw "/"

3. Create the client:

func getClusterConfig() *rest.Config {
	config, err := rest.InClusterConfig()
	if err != nil {
		glog.Fatal(err.Error())
	}
	return config
}

func getRestClient() *rest.RESTClient {

	cfg := getClusterConfig()

	gv := schema.GroupVersion{Group: "<API>", Version: "<version>"}
	cfg.GroupVersion = &gv
	cfg.APIPath = "/apis" // you can verify the path from step 2

	var Scheme = runtime.NewScheme()
	var Codecs = serializer.NewCodecFactory(Scheme)
	cfg.NegotiatedSerializer = Codecs.WithoutConversion()

	restClient, err := rest.RESTClientFor(cfg)

	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	return restClient
}

Alternatively, check the answer from kozmo here

For Velero you can reuse the client they have.

As an example take a look at this code:

restore, err := o.client.VeleroV1().Restores(restore.Namespace).Create(context.TODO(), restore, metav1.CreateOptions{})