From db00cca99a2bba044e15609ab3d9ec2c9ddaef46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: musa-asad <musaasad@amazon.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:09:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Implement exponential backoff by configuring kube-client env
 vars

---
 .../templates/linux/cloudwatch-agent-custom-resource.yaml   | 6 ++++++
 charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/values.yaml          | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/templates/linux/cloudwatch-agent-custom-resource.yaml b/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/templates/linux/cloudwatch-agent-custom-resource.yaml
index 1fbd9d3..8bb67f1 100644
--- a/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/templates/linux/cloudwatch-agent-custom-resource.yaml
+++ b/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/templates/linux/cloudwatch-agent-custom-resource.yaml
@@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ spec:
   - name: K8S_CLUSTER_NAME
     value: {{ $.Values.clusterName }}
   {{- with $.Values.tolerations }}
+  {{- if $.Values.k8sClientExponentialBackoff.enabled }}
+  - name: KUBE_CLIENT_BACKOFF_BASE
+    value: {{ $.Values.k8sClientExponentialBackoff.backoffBaseSeconds | quote }}
+  - name: KUBE_CLIENT_BACKOFF_DURATION
+    value: {{ $.Values.k8sClientExponentialBackoff.backoffMaxDurationSeconds | quote }}
+  {{- end }}
   tolerations: {{- toYaml . | nindent 2}}
   {{- end }}
 ---
diff --git a/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/values.yaml b/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/values.yaml
index 6370b17..3752616 100644
--- a/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/amazon-cloudwatch-observability/values.yaml
@@ -1451,3 +1451,7 @@ neuronMonitor:
         - SYS_ADMIN
   serviceAccount:
     name: # override exporter service account name
+k8sClientExponentialBackoff:
+  enabled: true
+  backoffBaseSeconds: 1
+  backoffMaxDurationSeconds: 120
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